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Classical frame for Saatchi’s brand-new look
The galleries are clean, sparse and huge. The ceilings have been sucked back into the structure, leaving beams and roof structures exposed, squeezing every inch of space out of the volumes. They are top lit and self-contained, in here the art is everything, writes Edwin Heathcote
Richard Alston, Sadler’s Wells, London
Forty years on, it was the chance for a brief retrospective, writes Clement Crisp
Aristo, Chichester Festival Theatre
Robert Lindsay delivers a powerful performance as billionaire Aristotle Onassis, writes Antony Thorncroft
SH*T-M*X, Trafalgar Studio 2, London
It is about as audacious and edgy as its title asterisks, writes Ian Shuttleworth
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall
If anybody doubted the orchestra’s quality, this will have silenced them, writes Richard Fairman
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