Posted by Matt on 12 September, 2010 · 5 Comments
If you missed Simon Stephens’s Punk Rock this time last year, now’s your chance to make good. Despite only three of the original cast having survived to join this touring production, in most important respects it’s a facsimile of the premiere.
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Posted by Matt on 27 August, 2010 · 1 Comment
Six ghosts stationed around the building recount the tale of the Winter Palace music hall and the power struggle between its manager, Mr Hunter (a Mason) and the newest chorus girl, Flora – and it isn’t a tale for the easily-made-queasy.
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Posted by Matt on 10 April, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Every character in Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train is at peace with who they are and the things they’ve done. This isn’t how prison dramas begin; it’s where they typically end.
Posted by Matt on 22 January, 2010 · 2 Comments
What do you remember about the Noughties? (Yes, it turns out that is what we’re calling them.) Theatre503 asked that question to ten playwrights – five established, five as-yet unproduced – and the result is Decade, a collection of ten ten-minute plays, each one representing a single year.
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Posted by Matt on 24 September, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Like a glass-panelled clock, Deborah Warner’s Mother Courage and Her Children doesn’t just choose not to conceal its inner workings, it displays them, inviting the audience to marvel at the way the pieces fit together.
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Posted by Matt on 18 July, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Lies, damned lies and statistics about the critics that like writing lists.
Posted by Matt on 13 July, 2009 · Leave a Comment
One show outstrips thousands of others for early hype this year.
Posted by Matt on 8 May, 2009 · Leave a Comment
If anthropogenic climate change is the greatest challenge currently facing mankind, then right now Steve Waters’ The Contingency Plan at the Bush Theatre is the most important artwork in the country.
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Posted by Matt on 6 March, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The women of Enda Walsh’s The New Electric Ballroom are like Chekhov’s Three Sisters without a Moscow to dream of.
Posted by Matt on 4 December, 2008 · Leave a Comment
How do you get a hundred hyperactive schoolchildren to sit still and shut up through seventy minutes of theatre? Trick question: it’s impossible.
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