Stephe Harrop

Stephe Harrop

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

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Seeking Oedipus

Jan 17, 2009 | Greek Tragedy, Reviews | 2 comments

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

Jan 10, 2009 | Arcola, Greek Tragedy, Reviews | 6 comments

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

Dec 18, 2008 | Reviews, Young People's Theatre | 2 comments

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

Dec 17, 2008 | Reviews, Young People's Theatre | Leave a comment

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

Nov 21, 2008 | Arcola, Reviews | Leave a comment

“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

Nov 13, 2008 | Reviews | Leave a comment

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

Nov 7, 2008 | Greek Tragedy, Reviews | Leave a comment

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

Oct 30, 2008 | Reviews, Young People's Theatre | 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…

Tongue and Groove

Oct 13, 2008 | Reviews | Leave a comment

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

Sep 12, 2008 | Lyric Hammersmith, Reviews | 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…