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Stovepipe

It’s all too easy to remain detached from the subject of Iraq. Stovepipe aims to pick us up off the sidelines and deposit us bodily into the midst of the relief effort.

The New Electric Ballroom

The New Electric Ballroom is far from an outlandish portrayal of small port-town Irish life, it’s an indictment of cream cakes, silk suits, chit-chat and veneer, and an ode to human pathos…

Eonnagata

Eonnagata is a diffuse, episodic and sometimes meandering meditation upon identity and gender, with moments of painful intensity interspersed with passages of narrative obscurity.

The Year of the Pig

A bittersweet, fantastical, funny and soulful show, at once an affectionate homage to the musicals of the past, and an inspiring glimpse of what the musicals of the future, in an ideal world, might be.

This Isn’t Romance

Incest is a theme that can’t help but eclipse all others in its power to raise a reaction. This play is going to offend some people – and isn’t that the litmus test for vital art?

England People Very Nice

The play does a great job putting the problems of today’s multicultural London in perpsective, as each generation of immigrants eventually integrates into British life and then takes its turn oppressing the next.

Shun-kin

Complicité’s new endeavour, Shun-kin, is a tale of love, obsession, devotion, and selflessness – one that will stay with me for a long time.

The Water’s Edge

Fourteen years after something terrible happened, an estranged husband and father returns to the family home, with a much younger girlfriend in tow. Theresa Rebeck’s contemporary reworking of the Agamemnon

Hotel Medea

Participatory theatre is hard. Especially when the audience don’t want to play ball. But I remain to be convinced that relentless pestering, emotional blackmail and the odd physical shove onto the dancefloor is the answer.

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…
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