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Dada Masilo’s Hamlet review – dance remix gives the tragedy some potent tweaks

Dada Masilo’s Hamlet review – dance remix gives the tragedy some potent tweaks

Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe late choreographer heightens Ophelia and Gertrude’s stories yet squanders some speeches in an intense hourWords, words, words. Can Hamlet retain its tragic force without using most of them? This hour-long dance-theatre remix by the late South African choreographer Dada Masilo preserves few speeches and its opening is not auspicious, crashing straight into “To be, or not to be” shorn of context and characterisation.There follows, as is customary, a meeting between...

Making sense of the latest BBL move that isn't 'a merger of the teams'

analysis What the looming sale of Melbourne Renegades means for fans and the BBL Wed 3 Jun 2026 at 2:07pm For cricket fans who just want to head to Docklands every few weeks and watch some folks in red shirts whack a white ball bowled by someone in a gold shirt, a lot of the talk of privatisation and franchise sales feels a little outside their purview. But it's becoming increasingly relevant as leagues grow into international businesses and our romantic notions of playing "for the love of...