I spoke to Russell Tovey and Stefan Golaszewski for Ideastap. Both are thoroughly lovely chaps, links to both interviews are below… “I think with theatre, more than anything else, people go in there and sort of take the lid off their heads and you’re allowed to poke around with their brains and with their emotions. [...]
Archive for February, 2012
An interview with Him & Him (Russell Tovey & Stefan Golaszewski)
Posted in Interviews, tagged IdeasTap, Russell Tovey, Stefan Golaszewski on February 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Review: Rocinante! Rocinante!
Posted in Reviews, tagged Cervantes, CLF Arts Cafe, Don Quixote, Hamlet, Hieronymus Bosch, Panta Rei Theatre, Shakespeare, Stephanie Lewis, Tommy Scott on February 21, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Written for Time Out Filled with vivid flights of fancy, ‘Rocinante! Rocinante!’ is an intriguing piece. Sweeping parasol oceans and miniature tin-pan solar systems make this a sophisticated visual work. But in terms of communicating a story, Panta Rei Theatre have completely lost their marbles. You can’t fault their ambition. In this devised piece, Don [...]
Review: A Russian Play
Posted in Reviews, tagged A Russian Play, Dan Percival, David Salter, John Thompson, new writing, The Lion and Unicorn, Tom Kanji on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Written for The Stage Ostensibly a black comedy, A Russian Play is actually rather like the stand-up gig you long to forget – you know the one, where you like the comedians but they just can’t make you laugh. Pegged as being a cross between Withnail and I and Crime and Punishment, John Thompson’s new [...]
State of the Arts – Jay Griffiths speech.
Posted in Comment, tagged Artists and Our Future Environment, Jay Griffiths, State of the Arts on February 16, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Written by Jay Griffiths for State of the Arts, Artists and Our Future Environment. Plato declared he would ban poets and flute players from his ideal Republic. He would send them out of the city, place of culture, into exile in the countryside, place of disdained nature. (Two thousand five hundred years later, I’m learning the [...]
Enough Fluff! Why is whimsical theatre all the rage?
Posted in Comment, tagged 1927, Dumbshow, Honourable Society of Faster Craftswomen, Littlebulb on February 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I wrote a blog on the dangerous homogenisation of folksy theatre – yes seriously. It’s here. Please have a read… http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2012/feb/15/enough-fluff-whimsical-theatre-makes-me-gag
Review: La Chunga
Posted in Reviews, tagged La Chunga, Phoenix Artist Club on February 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Written for Time Out Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa’s play is a highly charged curiosity, with its hand firmly in its trousers. Despite director Andy McQuade’s valiant efforts it feels like little more than theatrical masturbation. Chunga runs an establishment populated with barflies or ‘Superstuds’, whose lives revolve around ‘Wine, women and song’. But when [...]
Review: Sense and Sensibility
Posted in Reviews, tagged Benedict Davies, Bobbi O'Callaghan, Ellan Parry, Emma Fenney, Helen Tennison, James Burton, Jane Austen, Lainey Shaw, Rosemary Branch, Sense and Sensibility on February 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Written for Time Out If one were to imagine a Merchant Ivory film corseted into a small dark room above a pub, Helen Tennison’s ‘Sense and Sensibility’ would be it. Benedict Davies’s emotive score underpins a world full of ‘Downton Abbey’ charm. And Tennison breathes fresh air into this classy piece of chick-lit in an [...]
Review: Night of January 16th
Posted in Reviews, tagged Ayn Rand, David Mildon, Donavan Imber, Francesca Secchi, Jane Moriarty, Jessica Guise, Jonathan Rigby, Night of January 16th, The White Bear Theatre on February 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Written for The Stage There’s much to like in Jane Moriarty’s dastardly production of Ayn Rand’s melodramatic courtroom saga, Night of January 16th. Bjorn Faulkner’s mangled body is found at the bottom of a New York apartment block, but did he jump from his penthouse suit or was he pushed? As the jurors of this [...]
Review: Men In Motion (where I forget to breathe).
Posted in Reviews, tagged Aaron Sillis, AfterLight (Part One), C.P Cavafy, Daniel Proietto, Diaghilev, Elena Glurdjidze, Gary Hume, Igor Kolb, Ivan Putrov, Men In Motion, Michael Hulls, Nijinsky, Royal Ballet, Russell Maliphant, Sadler's Wells, Sergei Polunin on February 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Written for Exeunt Former Principal Royal Ballet dancer Ivan Putrov has pulled together a constellation of stars for his first foray into producing: Men In Motion. Following in the footsteps of Nijinsky and Diaghilev, Putrov is seeking to make the audience see beyond the supremacy of the ballerina. In ballet men have had to play second [...]
And No More Shall We Part
Posted in Comment, Reviews, tagged And No More Shall We Part, Bill Paterson, Dearbhla Molloy, James Macdonald, Tom Holloway on February 19, 2012 | 1 Comment »
It doesn’t seem to be hurting the Downstairs season at The Hampstead that they’ve imposed a no press policy. The place was packed last night for the extended run of And No More Shall We Part, a powerful example of word of mouth taking the glory. There really is nothing more viral than a good [...]
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