Written for Exeunt Chalet Lines, Madani Younis’ first production as Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre, explodes the constricting nature of family ties. Lee Mattinson’s fraught comedy, with its feminist undertones, emphasis on emotional and sexual disappointments, and exploration of societal pressures, appears influenced by writers like Caryl Churchill and Charlotte Keatley. Mattinson is a Newcastle-based [...]
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Review: Chalet Lines
Posted in Reviews, tagged Chalet Lines, Donna Disco, Lee Mattinson, Madani Younis, The Bush Theatre on April 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Review: Sixty-Six Books
Posted in Reviews, tagged 66 Books, Billy Bragg, Catherine Tate, Jeanette Winterson, Josie Rourke, Juliet Stevenson, Kate Mosse, King James Bible, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Neil LaBute, Rowan Williams, Selna Godden, Sixty-Six Books, The Bush Theatre on October 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Written for Whats On Stage If this first 24-hour performance of Sixty-Six Books felt like a pilgrimage for those of us who witnessed every second, it must have seemed even more so for the team at the Bush Theatre. After three years of planning Josie Rourke and her crew have produced not only the rebirth of a religious text [...]
Will the real ‘self’ please stand up?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bobby Baker, Frantic Assembly, Sex Addict, Spalding Gray, Stefan Golaszewski, The Bush Theatre, Tim Fountain, Tim Miller on January 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a little something I made earlier. Written initially in response to Stefan Golaszewski I’ve been sat on it for a while, but after seeing Kim Noble last week it got me thinking about it again and so it seemed a good time to dust it off and let it see the light of internet day…let [...]
Stefan Golaszewski – a man in love.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Stefan Golaszewski, The Bush Theatre on December 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Stefan Golaszewski is a young man with too many words to fit on his tongue and today he is here to talk about love. In fact as he pours out sentence after sentence, each one full of microscopic visceral detail, it seems he is rather obsessed with it.
Belief walks in from the wings.
Posted in Comment, tagged 13, 66 Books, A Disappearing Number, Alexi Kaye Campbell, BABEL, Ben Power, Bishop of Hertford, David Hare, Donmar Warehouse, Dr Rowan Williams, Enron, George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Helen Edmundson, Henry Hitchings, Jerzy Grotowski, Joe Penhall, Josie Rourke, King James Bible, Michael Billington, Michael Sheen, MIke Bartlett, Peter Brook, Port Talbot, Racing Demon, Royal Court Theatre, The Bush Theatre, The Church Times, The Faith Machine, The Haunted Child, The Heresy of Love, The National Theatre, The Passion, William Tyndale, Written on the Heart on January 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Written for the Church Times In the spotlight: Messianic John (Trystan Gravelle), centre, with Stephen (Danny Webb) and Ruth (Geraldine James) in the National Theatre production of 13 NATIONAL THEATRE/MARC BRENNER “I HAVE always thought that the theatre is a kind of surrogate religion,” The Guardian’s longest-standing theatre critic, Michael Billington, says. “It has its [...]
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