Mark Valencia
Bio
Mark has worked in arts journalism for more than thirty years, initially as a broadcaster; then in print and later online as a writer and translator for magazines, record companies and arts websites. Mark's background is in education - teaching drama and directing. His passion for music and theatre in all their forms has led him to collaborate with a number of composers on lyrics and librettos.
Articles By Mark Valencia
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'We are bowled over!' Thank you for your messages...
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Prost, BBC 4 review - life and times of the driver they call...
With Brad Pitt’s much-trumpeted F1 movie about to screech noisily into the multiplexes, it’s not a bad time to be reminded of the career of one of...
Album: Yungblud - Idols
Yungblud has declared his fourth album, Idols, to be a “a project with no limitations”. This is quite a claim.
So, what musical...
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Suzuki, St Marti...
In the Saxony of 1725 – still in the grip of Europe’s “Little Ice Age” – Bach and his musicians would seldom have had to deal with the sort of...
Patrick Wolf, Rough Trade East review - the Kent-based bard...
After the evening’s second song “The Last of England,” Patrick Wolf cautions “I’ve got nothing left to say.” During the shows leading up to this...
4.48 Psychosis, Royal Court review - powerful but déjà vu
Sarah Kane is the most celebrated new writer of the 1990s. Her work is provocative and innovative. So it seems oddly unimaginative to mark the...
The Buccaneers, Apple TV+, Season 2 review - American advent...
Edith Wharton hadn’t finished her novel, The Buccaneers, when she died in 1937, but it was completed in 1993 by Marion Mainwaring. The...
Red Path review - the dead know everything
Here’s a film you might not feel like seeing. After all, Red Path tells of a 14-year-old in Tunisia who is forced to carry home the...
Album: Loyle Carner - Hopefully!
Loyle Carner’s Hopefully! is a luminous, deeply personal exploration of fatherhood, identity, and artistic reinvention, marking the south...