Jun 17, 2009 | New Writing, Reviews, Theatre503 | Leave a comment
More than just a reverent character study of Dr. King, The Mountaintop presents a history with an immediate bearing on the modern world.
Jun 10, 2009 | Reviews, Southwark Playhouse | 1 comment
The Moon The Moon is many overlapping things, but never feels like collage; its elements complement rather than contradict one another.
May 30, 2009 | National Theatre, Reviews, Shakespeare | 10 comments
Perhaps under other circumstances having ’solved’ All’s Well would be enough of an achievement, but this is the National we’re talking about; it’s perfectly justifiable to demand more.
May 23, 2009 | BAC, Fringe, Participatory, Reviews, Sound | 1 comment
In Rotating in a Room of Images, participants spend the majority of the 15-minute production in pitch darkness, guided only by invisible hands and the spooky voice in the headphones.
May 22, 2009 | BAC, Participatory, Reviews, Rotozaza, Site Specific | 4 comments
Wondermart continues Rotozaza’s work with audio-instructed performance and develops the site-specific element introduced in Etiquette.
May 13, 2009 | Old Vic, Punchdrunk, Reviews, Site Specific, Young Vic | 5 comments
Tunnel 228 isn’t meant to be found (i.e. stumbled upon at random); you’re meant to find it (i.e. actively seek it out).
May 8, 2009 | Bush, New Writing, Reviews | 1 comment
If anthropogenic climate change is the greatest challenge currently facing mankind, then right now Steve Waters’ The Contingency Plan at the Bush Theatre is the most important artwork in the country.
Apr 16, 2009 | CPT, Reviews, Verbatim theatre | Leave a comment
A Place at the Table has a couple of rock-solid concepts - the subject matter and staging - at its heart, but glommed around them is a mass of shiny little distractions that serve only to obscure the truths verbatim theatre is supposed to expose.
Apr 8, 2009 | National Theatre, Reviews | Leave a comment
Though Death and the King’s Horseman was programmed well before England People Very Nice opened and the accusations began, in context it feels like a comforting reassurance that the National Theatre does not condone racism.
Mar 29, 2009 | Articles, BAC, Edinburgh Fringe, Fringe, Participatory, Rotozaza, Technology | 1 comment
The Forest Fringe is set to challenge every convention in sight, from the role of the audience right up to what we can comfortably classify as theatre.
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