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Stephe Harrop

Stephe Harrop is a theatre-maker, writer, performer and academic.

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Seeking Oedipus

Theatre of Silence’s Seeking Oedipus is played out on a steeply raked ramp, where the private acts of the tragedy’s protagonists are pinioned in the glare of public scrutiny. The…

In Blood: The Bacchae

In Blood: The Bacchae fuses the story of Besouro, a folk hero of the struggle for Afro-Brazilian equality, with Euripides’ tragedy of a seductive vengeful god returning to claim the…

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 Snow Queen

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.…

Tombstone Tales and Boothill Ballads

“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…

Hard Times

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…

Alcestis

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…

Cloudcuckooland

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…

Tongue and Groove

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…

365

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…
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