Nov 21, 2009 | Participatory, Reviews | Leave a comment
Viewed in context, HALL is a necessary step in the evolution of audio-instructed performance to a form capable of telling big, sprawling stories as well as brief, compact ones.
Oct 2, 2009 | Reviews, Royal Court, Tim Crouch | 2 comments
In the final 15 minutes, The Author is revealed for what it has really been all along: a daring act of self-flagellation by Crouch on behalf of provocative art and controversial artists.
Oct 2, 2009 | Reviews, Shunt Collective | 1 comment
The machine is the undisputed star of the production, which, after a few deliberately confusing false-starts, eventually reveals itself as a parable about the dangers of stock market speculation.
Sep 27, 2009 | Greek Tragedy, Reviews, Southwark Playhouse | Leave a comment
In Full Tilt’s revival of Orestes: Re-Examined, the audience is brought forward as jury to judge the case of Orestes’ matricide and its myriad ramifications.
Sep 24, 2009 | National Theatre, Reviews | 16 comments
Like a glass-panelled clock, Deborah Warner’s Mother Courage and Her Children doesn’t just choose not to conceal its inner workings, it displays them, inviting the audience to marvel at the way the pieces fit together.
Sep 20, 2009 | Articles, BAC | Leave a comment
Battersea Arts Centre’s Scratch nights have always been about risk-taking and experimentation, and with Freshly Scratched - one of the two parallel programmes in this year’s Scratch Festival - the venue’s staff are taking almost as big a risk as…
Sep 20, 2009 | Lyric Hammersmith, New Writing, Reviews | 1 comment
As an examination of the overly simplistic adult tendency to classify teenage behaviour as the direct result of easily identifiable causes like alcohol, pornography and violent media, Punk Rock delivers.
Sep 16, 2009 | Participatory, Reviews | Leave a comment
ÁTMAN sends participants on a walk around the residential streets and footpaths of Merton, accompanied by an abridged audio-only version of Peter Handke’s Self-Accusation.
Sep 1, 2009 | Edinburgh Fringe 2009, Physical Theatre, Reviews, Technology | 1 comment
In part 3 of his Fringe round-up, Matt Boothman looks at the relationship between physical theatre and technology, highlighting anomie by Precarious and Borges and I by Idle Motion.
Aug 27, 2009 | Edinburgh Fringe 2009, Participatory, Reviews | 1 comment
Belt Up Theatre, Tickled Pig and Ontroerend Goed are busy blurring the actor/audience divide at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. What techniques to they use and how do they compare?
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