Written for Whats On Stage There’s a striking resemblance in the younger man to the elder standing next to him. As father and son one would expect this, but surprisingly it’s quite a jolt; a visceral reminder of the depth of the relationship between these two performers. It’s a powerful initial impression for Frankland and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Camden People’s Theatre’
Review: Frankland & Sons
Posted in Reviews, tagged Camden People's Theatre, Frankland & Sons, Tom Frankland on January 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Review: A Place At The Table
Posted in Reviews, tagged A Place At The Table, Burundi, Camden People's Theatre, Daedalus, Paul Burgess, Rwandan genocide on November 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Written for Exeunt Magazine It’s a daunting task just trying to take in all of the information contained within Daedalus Theatre’s A Place At The Table. The dense facts and figures of the U.N. Security Council Report S/1996/682 which forms the basis of this devised piece are broken down into actions, phone calls and songs. As we [...]
Hamster Town @ Camden People’s Theatre
Posted in Reviews, tagged Camden People's Theatre, Hamster Town, Jacques Lecoq, physical theatre on August 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
David Ralfe’s Hamster Town at times borders on the twee. The story of Darren, a lonely abandoned father who finds redemption through his bond with a hamster, it’s the kind of thing that – on the surface at least – might make PIXAR go weak at the knees. Perhaps, however, even the movie suits would balk at the [...]
Sprint @ Camden People’s Theatre: Matt Ball
Posted in Interviews, tagged Camden People's Theatre, Matt Ball, Sprint on March 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Written for www.whatsonstage.com Chatting to Matt Ball about the 14th Sprint Festival it suddenly hits me that Camden People’s Theatre are the Grandaddy of the current contemporary art festival scene. Fourteen years is quite a legacy and this longevity must be encouraging for newer endeavours like Forest Fringe and the Fierce Festival. “That’s a nice [...]
Mascha and Vascha – Strange Ladies
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Camden People's Theatre, Existentialism, Hannah Pyliotis, Lilly Sykes, Mascha & Vascha, Strange Ladies, Surrealism, Waiting For Godot on August 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Two grotesque old ladies bicker in a small gypsy-esque living room. Eyes roll and teeth gnash as they rasp their way through their day. One is a dreamer and the other a doer, one a skinny hunchback and the other comically rotund, but for all their differences they are inherently tied together; being the only [...]
Exposure has everything to do with length.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Camden Fringe, Camden People's Theatre, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Fringe, Fringe Review, The Camden Voyeur, The Guardian, The Roundhouse on June 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“A David has emerged to challenge the Edinburgh Goliath: the Camden Fringe” The Guardian The fourth Camden Fringe starts on 3rd August and in its three year tenure it has grown into a diverse and credible festival. But apart from the above golden nugget from the Guardian very little national press covers the up and [...]
I tasted Sprint, and it’s playful.
Posted in Comment, Festival News, Reviews, tagged Camden People's Theatre, Exeunt Magazine, Festival, Francesca Millican-Slater, Greg McLaren, Mamoru Iriguchi, Matt Ball, performance art, Sprint on March 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Written for http://exeuntmagazine.com The fourteenth Sprint festival at Camden People’s Theatre kicks off with a taster evening which embodies the festival’s lively and playful essence – and while I’d be reluctant to call it a theme, an abundance of childish delight runs through the work in this opening showcase. The evening begins with Mamoru Iriguchi’s Projector/Conjector. Iriguchi has [...]
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