Lessons in Love & Violence is a deliciously cool, intellectually stimulating and tremendously suggestive reading of a brilliant piece about the politics of power, the confusion of desire and the horror of violence. If love can make us human, so can murder.
REVIEW ROUND-UP: Written on Skin at the Royal Opera House
George Benjamin and Martin Crimp’s opera is revived at the Royal Opera House for the first time, directed by Katie Mitchell and running until 30 January 2017. Here is what critics have been saying about it.