Posted by Matt on 11 July, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The first and final scenes of this open-air Comedy of Errors feel dashed off, as if director Philip Franks couldn’t be bothered to do much with them. This isn’t as big a problem as it might be in a different play: The Comedy of Errors is mostly middle.
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Posted by Matt on 3 February, 2010 · Leave a Comment
An original member of La Clique, Martinez exists in the borderlands between stand-up comedy, burlesque dance, stage magic and performance art. Similarly, My Stories, Your Emails is a lecture, a stand-up act, a play, a confession and an autobiography while simultaneously being none of these things.
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Posted by Matt on 29 January, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The men at the top are on their way out, but does that mean the people below them get a look-in? Does it heck.
Posted by Matt on 17 November, 2009 · 2 Comments
At first glance, Public Property is a boilerplate Trafalgar Studio 2 production. On closer inspection, however, this is something of a rare find: a play about three gay men in which the characters’ sexuality is almost incidental, an extra thematic layer rather than the piece’s raison d’être.
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Posted by Matt on 21 September, 2009 · 2 Comments
As an examination of the overly simplistic adult tendency to classify teenage behaviour as the direct result of easily identifiable causes like alcohol, pornography and violent media, Punk Rock delivers.
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Posted by Matt on 18 July, 2009 · Leave a Comment
If you manage to get a ticket for Clare Bayley’s The Container – and with a capacity of just 28 per performance, that’ll make you part of a fairly exclusive group – first check the weather forecast, and pray for rain.
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Posted by Matt on 17 June, 2009 · Leave a Comment
More than just a reverent character study of Dr. King, The Mountaintop presents a history with an immediate bearing on the modern world.
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Posted by Matt on 31 May, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Perhaps under other circumstances having ’solved’ All’s Well would be enough of an achievement, but this is the National we’re talking about; it’s perfectly justifiable to demand more.
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