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Matt Boothman

Matt has been reviewing theatre in London and the South East since June 2008. He may look like an old-guard establishment critic (white and male, that is) but don't hold his ethnicity against him - he's young and tech literate, and tries hard not to be middle class all the time...

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Matt Boothman talks to the artists and organisers of Home, a pop-up installation and performance art event staged in a Regency mansion in residential Penge, London.

Lady Julia

In The Lamplight’s Lady Julia brings August Strindberg’s seminal Miss Julie bang up to date. How does it fare in its new 21st century context?

The Stefan Golaszewski Plays

The Stefan Golaszewski Plays work so well as a double bill; it seems likely they were always meant to be performed together.

Hall

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.

The Author

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.

Money

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.

Orestes: Re-Examined

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.

Mother Courage and Her Children

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.

Scratch Festival

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…

Punk Rock

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.

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