Reviews – Archive

ATMAN

ÁTMAN sends participants on a walk around the residential streets and footpaths of Merton, accompanied by an abridged audio-only version of Peter Handke’s Self-Accusation.

Sep 16 2009 | Leave a comment

Arcadia

By Tom Cameron

David Leveaux’s production dazzles, but is to be commended for not being content with that alone – it preserves the heart of Stoppard’s play.

Sep 8 2009 | 1 comment

Un/Familiar Fringe Episode Three: Un/Afraid

By Matt Boothman

In part 3 of his Fringe round-up, Matt Boothman looks at the relationship between physical theatre and technology, highlighting anomie by Precarious and Borges and I by Idle Motion.

Sep 1 2009 | 1 comment

Un/Familiar Fringe Episode Two: Un/Seated

By Matt Boothman

Belt Up Theatre, Tickled Pig and Ontroerend Goed are busy blurring the actor/audience divide at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. What techniques to they use and how do they compare?

Aug 27 2009 | 1 comment

Funny: Don’t Make Me Laugh

By Nada Cabani

This is an ambitious project that sets out to explore the power of humour as a weapon of torture, and very much succeeds.

Aug 27 2009 | 3 comments

Un/Familiar Fringe – Episode One: Un/Heard

By Matt Boothman

Matt Boothman puts two participatory audio-led performances to the test at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2009. Rotozaza’s GuruGuru followed by David Leddy’s Susurrus.

Aug 19 2009 | 3 comments

Carbón Club

By Diana Damian

With infectious energy, Markeline pay a unique tribute to the miners of the Basque Country bringing old stories back to life and adventure to the National Theatre’s Square 2.

Aug 17 2009 | Leave a comment

Kitty and Damnation

By Stephe Harrop

With fewer histrionics, and greater faith in the actors’ ability to make us care, Kitty and Damnation would be a much stronger piece of theatre.

Aug 15 2009 | 7 comments

Phèdre

By Poonperm Paitayawat

Hytner makes a shrewd directorial choice to modernise Jean Racine’s 17th century classic tragedy and tackles it as a psychodrama.

Aug 12 2009 | Leave a comment

East 10th Street: Self-Portrait With Empty House

By Nada Cabani

East 10th Street is that internal ‘haunted’ house, where humanity wrestles with the profound peculiarities of a meaningless existence that, now and then, goes wayward and crumbles.

Aug 12 2009 | 5 comments