Written for Exeunt An accordion wheezes in and out as an old woman takes her last breaths, the musician reacting to each of the performer’s movements with amazing perceptiveness. The woman’s death is simple and gentle; a quiet celebration of her life. But watching this, I was left oddly cold; astonished at the technical skill [...]
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Review: Translunar Paradise
Posted in Reviews, tagged Barbican, Deborah Pugh, George Mann, Kim Heron, London Mime Festival, Mime, Theatre Ad Infinitum, Translunar Paradis on January 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Ridiculusmus on Total Football and scrabbling around for national identity
Posted in Interviews, tagged Barbican, Comedy, David Woods, Jon Haynes, performance art, Ridiculusmus, The Barbican, Total Football on May 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Written for Exeunt David Woods and Jon Haynes – Ridiculusmus Two men dressed in suits stood in a suitcase filled with grass. Over the course of 70 minutes they managed to communicate the absurdity and frustration of the stymied Northern Ireland peace process without taking a step out of their turf box. Exuberant, sombre yet [...]
On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God – Romeo Castellucci
Posted in Reviews, tagged Barbican, On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God, Romeo Castellucci, Societas Raffaello Sanzio, SPILL on April 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Written for Exeunt Magazine A man soils himself on stage and the sweet tang of excrement fills the polished Barbican auditorium as brown begins to smudge the pristine white set. A son wipes his father clean as Jesus smiles his Mona Lisa smile on the pair of them, an observer like us, and also the [...]
Rajni Shah’s Glorious @ The Barbican
Posted in Reviews, tagged Barbican, Glorious, London, Musical, Rajni Shah, SPILL on April 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Written for Total Theatre Rajni Shah stands in the centre of an empty stage; a statue on a plinth, her velveteen voice fills the Silk Street Theatre easing us gently into the show to come, ‘And then the stories start to fall…And then the songs begin’. There is something very soporific about this beginning; it [...]
Rajni Shah – Glorious
Posted in Interviews, tagged Barbican, Glorious, Live Art, Musical Theatre, performance art, Rajni Shah, Rajni Shah Projects, SPILL Festival on April 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Rajni Shah has been creating and directing original performance work since 1999, with past projects including Hope (2009); Dinner with America (2008); give what you can, take what you need (2008); Altars of us all / speaking to strangers (2008) and Mr Quiver (2005). Her work ranges from large-scale performance installations to small solo interventions in public spaces.Glorious is the third in a trilogy of works [...]
A Magic Flute @ The Barbican
Posted in Reviews, tagged A Magic Flute, Barbican, Peter Brook, The Magic Flute on March 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Written for Exeunt Peter Brook has spent a lifetime distilling his theatrical process, a pilgrimage that has resulted in productions of astonishing subtlety. For some his belief in stripping away theatre to its barest bones, in constant honing and sharpening, in the scraping away all that is extraneous from even the most prized texts, is [...]
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Exeunt Critics’ Picks of 2011
Posted in Comment, tagged Arcola, Barbican, Bishopsgate Institute Library, Bristol Old Vic Studio, Bush Theatre, Cambridge Theatre, Carmel Doohan, Chichester Festival Theatre, Clybourne Park, Daniel B Yates, Ectasy, Every Rendition on a Broken Machine, Exeunt, Fanta Orange, Finborough Theatre, Forest Fringe, Going Dark, Hamlet, Hampstead Theatre, Jay Miller, Jerusalem, Julia Rank, Landor Theatre, Landscape/Monologue, Lines, Lois Jeary, London Road, Lyric Hammersmith, Made In China, Matilda, Mission Drift, Much Ado About Nothing, Natasha Tripney, National Theatre, Neil Dowden, One Man Two Guvnors, Ragtime, Rosemary Branch Theatre, Royal Court Theatre, Samuel Beckett Theatre, Saved, Schaubuhne Berlin, She Loves Me, She She Pop and Their Fathers: Testament, Stationary Excess, Stewart Pringle, The Church of St Thomas The Martyr, The Guild of Cheesemakers, The Quiet Volume, The Seagull, The Village Bike, The Wild Bride, The Yard, this is where we got to when you came in, Tom Philips, Tracey Sinclair, Traverse Theatre, Ustinov Theatre, Young Vic on December 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
LOTS of fabulous picks here by some people who really know their stuff including some expected and not so expected pieces. Wish I could have mentioned London Road, wish I could have seen Mission Drift… Originally published on Exeunt Of course we are wary of the arbitrary nature of these things, the artificiality of seasons, [...]
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