Written for www.whatsonstage.com As the competitively named Rivals opens in the West End, Theatre503 is pushing an altogether friendlier agenda with its Coalition season. Encompassing five short works in each group, the Yellow and Blue programmes will be performed in rep with yesterday the Blue group taking to the podium (tonight is Yellow and so [...]
Archive for November, 2010
Review: Coalition at Theatre 503 (The Blue Group)
Posted in Reviews, tagged Coalition, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Natalia Sheppard, Nick Clegg, Richard Marsh, Rogue Nouveau, Theatre 503 on November 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Review: Fabrication at The Print Room
Posted in Reviews, tagged Anda Winters, Fabrication, Jasper Britton, Lucy Bailey, Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Print Room on November 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Written for www.whatsonstage.com In the dark before the curtains are raised the soothing voice of Sophocles tells us that we are to prepare ourselves for some poetry; it will be hard, but all we need to do to enjoy it, is to ‘adjust to its frequency’. No wiser piece of advice could be given, when [...]
Review: The Robbers at The New Diorama
Posted in Reviews, tagged Friedrich Schiller, New Diorama, The Faction Theatre Company, The Robbers on November 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Written for www.fourthwallmagazine.co.uk Highly emotive and, at points, embarrassingly earnest, Friedrich Schiller’s The Robbers is an impassioned look at the nature of good and evil. With everyone’s favourite Karl Moor temporarily banished by his father, younger brother Franz coldly conspires to make his exile permanent wreaking havoc as he slowly manipulates his way to power. [...]
Review: Blasted at The Lyric Hammersmith
Posted in Reviews, tagged Blasted, Sarah Kane, Sean Holmes, The Lyric Hammersmith on November 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Written for www.fourthwallmagazine.co.uk Sarah Kane’s work is usually the province of textual study, her words confined to student reading lists, so it is a treat to see Blasted performed on a British stage. Brutal and uncompromising, treat may appear an incongruous word to describe Kane’s shocking first play, but if you long for theatre that [...]
Reviews (well more like historical pieces of description) The Charming Man & Reasons To Be Cheerful
Posted in Comment, Reviews, tagged Gabriel Bisset-Smith, Reasons To Be Cheerful, The Charming MAn, Theatre 503, Theatre Royal Stratford East on November 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hmmmm so my timing for this poor blog is shoddy and these producitons are now over. Good work Honour. Please therefore see these as pieces of interest instead of recommendations, or not, as the case may be. Written for www.fourthwallmagazine.co.uk (of which I am now Theatre Editor BTW!) The Charming Man Theatre 503’s The Charming Man [...]
Save The Forest Cafe!
Posted in Comment, Festival News, tagged Andy Field, Debbie Pearson, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Forest Fringe, King's of England, Little Bulb, Nic Green, The Forest Cafe, Tinned Fingers on November 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Forest Fringe Café on Bristo Place, Edinburgh Written for www.fourthwallmagazine.co.uk A shining free beacon in the middle of an inevitably money sucking Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Forest Café is an independent social and arts centre currently located on Bristo Place. Achingly cool and run by volunteers as a charitable self-sustaining not-for-profit organisation, it [...]
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