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Nov 13, 2008 | Reviews | View 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…
Nov 7, 2008 | Greek Tragedy, Reviews | View 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…
Oct 30, 2008 | Reviews, Young People's Theatre | View 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…
Oct 13, 2008 | Reviews | View 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…
Sep 12, 2008 | Lyric Hammersmith, Reviews | View 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…
Sep 8, 2008 | Finborough, Reviews | View 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…
Sep 1, 2008 | Arcola, Reviews | View 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…
Aug 27, 2008 | Arcola, Reviews, Young People's Theatre | View Comments
In The Elephant’s Child and Just So from Metta Theatre, a company of eight present a series of semi-improvised animal fables, followed by a puppet-opera explaining the origin of the…
Aug 11, 2008 | Reviews, Shakespeare | View Comments
It’s a production without concept, in which the actors feverishly juggling words, words, words keep revealing brilliant new facets of a familiar text, then tossing them away with spendthrift unconcern.
Aug 7, 2008 | National Theatre, New Writing, Reviews | View Comments
Her Naked Skin is a bit like its heroine: courageous, demanding, articulate, divided, unpredictable and – despite good intentions – ultimately alienating.
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