Apr 4, 2009 | Anthony Neilson, Reviews, Soho Theatre | 1 comment
Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness is Anthony Neilson’s homage to the garish and cruel spectacle of the nineteenth-century freak-show.
Mar 29, 2009 | Orange Tree, Reviews | 1 comment
Veering between silliness and savagery, at times The Story of Vasco feels like a mind-bending collision of Milligan and Lorca.
Mar 25, 2009 | Lyric Hammersmith, Reviews | Leave a comment
Amit Lahav’s company bring wit and compassion and an essential lightness of touch to this grimmest of stories, aided by Ti Green’s bleakly playful set and some glorious lighting from James Farncombe.
Mar 22, 2009 | Reviews, Young People's Theatre | Leave a comment
Despite a few wobbles The Lion, the Witch and the Warbrobe bodes well for a productive conjunction of company and venue.
Feb 28, 2009 | Reviews, Sadler's Wells | 4 comments
Eonnagata is a diffuse, episodic and sometimes meandering meditation upon identity and gender, with moments of painful intensity interspersed with passages of narrative obscurity.
Feb 27, 2009 | Articles, Technology, Theatre Online | Leave a comment
Speak Bitterness will be webcast live, and will be performed by the six core-members of Forced Entertainment including Artistic Director, Tim Etchells
Feb 21, 2009 | Musical Theatre, Reviews | 1 comment
A bittersweet, fantastical, funny and soulful show, at once an affectionate homage to the musicals of the past, and an inspiring glimpse of what the musicals of the future, in an ideal world, might be.
Feb 19, 2009 | Directing, Greek Tragedy, Interviews | Leave a comment
When I spoke to director Mike Tweddle, in rehearsal for the world premiere of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s new version of Hippolytus, I started by asking what drew him to Euripides’ tale…
Feb 6, 2009 | Arcola, Reviews | 5 comments
Fourteen years after something terrible happened, an estranged husband and father returns to the family home, with a much younger girlfriend in tow. Theresa Rebeck’s contemporary reworking of the Agamemnon…
Jan 31, 2009 | Arcola, Features, Greek Tragedy, Participatory, Reviews | 15 comments
Participatory theatre is hard. Especially when the audience don’t want to play ball. But I remain to be convinced that relentless pestering, emotional blackmail and the odd physical shove onto the dancefloor is the answer.
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