Written for The Stage Translated into 36 languages Jung Chang’s autobiographical Wild Swans is a suitably cosmopolitan opening to World Stages London. Sacha Wares’ panoramic production makes an aptly ambitious visual spectacular. Alexandra Wood’s honed adaptation places the onus on one of the book’s Daughters of China with De-Hong (Chang’s mother) in the spotlight. The [...]
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Review: Wild Swans
Posted in Reviews, tagged Alexandra Wood, Jung Chang, Miriam Buether, Sacha Wares, Wild Swans, World Stages London, Young Vic on April 23, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I Am The Wind @ Young Vic
Posted in Reviews, tagged European Theatre, I Am The Wind, Jack Laskey, Patrice Chéreau, Simon Stephens, Tom Brooke, Young Vic on May 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Written for Exeunt Jon Fosse’s I Am The Wind is a meditation on acceptance and resistance; an exercise in philosophical manoeuvring around the subject of death. It is also a text which nearly drowns under the weight of its own wordiness. Even in Simon Stephens’ no-frills version the pun is intentional: this play is full of hot [...]
Review: No Idea
Posted in Reviews, tagged Improbable, Lee Simpson, Lisa Hammond, Rachael Spence, Young Vic on July 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
With a pop up hat, waistcoat and knowingly jaunty wink, Lisa Hammond dances around the stage belting out the annoyingly catchy lyrics to “Cheeky Face”. It’s a Dickensian song and dance number and a direct response to people’s attitudes towards Hammond as a disabled and restricted growth actor. Wacky and at points hilarious, “Cheeky Face” [...]
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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