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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.

Arcadia

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.

Un/Familiar Fringe Episode Three: Un/Afraid

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.

Un/Familiar Fringe Episode Two: Un/Seated

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?

Funny: Don’t Make Me Laugh

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

Un/Familiar Fringe – Episode One: Un/Heard

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.

Carbón Club

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.

Kitty and Damnation

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.

Phèdre

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

East 10th Street: Self-Portrait With Empty House

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.

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