Clockheart Boy
Clockheart Boy from Dumbshow is a twisting tale of grief, bitter sibling rivalry and the difficulty of mending damaged hearts. The Professor lives among his eccentrically gifted creations, brooding upon the… Continue reading...
Author Archives for Stephe Harrop
Stephe Harrop - has published 32 posts on London Theatre Blog.
Stephe Harrop is a theatre practitioner and academic.
The Snow Queen
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 | 0 Comments
Hans’s Andersen’s The Snow Queen is a cruelly bleak epic of a fairy tale, in which lost childhood innocence can only be redeemed at the price of suffering and sorrow. So… Continue reading...
Tombstone Tales and Boothill Ballads
Friday, November 21, 2008 | 0 Comments
“Are you on your own? Would you like to sit here?” The last time I heard those words I was about to come in for the combined attentions of the… Continue reading...
Hard Times
Thursday, November 13, 2008 | 0 Comments
Hard Times is one of those novels where everyone knows the start (tyrannical schoolmaster Gradgrind and the definition of “horse”), but no-one seems to know the ending. Icon Theatre’s production remedies… Continue reading...
Alcestis
Friday, November 7, 2008 | 0 Comments
Euripides’ Alcestis, a not-quite-tragic Greek tragedy, centres upon a wife’s self-sacrificing decision to die in her doomed husband’s place. Ted Hughes’ version of the play is a visceral and uncompromising… Continue reading...
Cloudcuckooland
Thursday, October 30, 2008 | 2 Comments
In Aristophanes’ The Birds, a city in the clouds is the background to an ambivalent satire on utopianism and realpolitik. Cloudcuckooland, a musical for children, re-imagines Aristophanes’ comedy as a… Continue reading...
Tongue and Groove
Monday, October 13, 2008 | 0 Comments
Annamation are a trio of wise women, with the voices of angels and a taste for low comedy. In their current show Tongue and Groove, fantastical, sometimes terrible tales are… Continue reading...
365
Friday, September 12, 2008 | 5 Comments
365 from the National Theatre of Scotland follows a series of teenagers emerging from care, and taking their first steps towards independence in ‘practice flats’. David Harrower’s drama explores the instabilities… Continue reading...
Sons of York
Monday, September 8, 2008 | 0 Comments
In December 1978, with the Winter of Discontent in full swing, three generations of a working-class family gather in a living-room in Hull. Patriarch Dad is in denial about his… Continue reading...
Sueño Lorca - Lorca Dreams
Monday, September 1, 2008 | 0 Comments
Lorca Dreams is a strange and playfully morbid fantasia on the life and works of Federico García Lorca. Performed in Spanish with English surtitles, the piece weaves together extracts from the… Continue reading...
Thursday, December 18, 2008 | 2 Comments