http://www.londontheatreblog.co.uk/the-new-electric-ballroom/ Group authored publication covering theatre and the performing arts in London and beyond Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:57:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.londontheatreblog.co.uk/the-new-electric-ballroom/#comment-3091 jenny Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:54:10 +0000 http://www.londontheatreblog.co.uk/?p=1237#comment-3091 I agree. It should have been marketed with a different focus and what a great idea for it to be made into a play for radio. I agree. It should have been marketed with a different focus and what a great idea for it to be made into a play for radio.

]]> http://www.londontheatreblog.co.uk/the-new-electric-ballroom/#comment-2979 Matt Boothman Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:30:49 +0000 http://www.londontheatreblog.co.uk/?p=1237#comment-2979 I really didn't expect to like this. Slow-burn potboilers ordinarily bore me rigid, and everything I'd heard or read about it, both at the Fringe and since, had me convinced it was a slow-burn potboiler. I think it's strange that the publicity material doesn't make more of the surrealist/absurdist elements, which, to me, were what made the play stand out (that and Walsh's script, but it was SO wordy and SO static in places that I found myself thinking it would work better as a radio play). I really didn’t expect to like this. Slow-burn potboilers ordinarily bore me rigid, and everything I’d heard or read about it, both at the Fringe and since, had me convinced it was a slow-burn potboiler. I think it’s strange that the publicity material doesn’t make more of the surrealist/absurdist elements, which, to me, were what made the play stand out (that and Walsh’s script, but it was SO wordy and SO static in places that I found myself thinking it would work better as a radio play).

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