Home
In which I talk to the artists and organisers of Home, a pop-up installation and performance art event staged in a Regency mansion in residential Penge, London.
The Stefan Golaszewski Plays
Two one-act plays back to back don’t usually make a successful two-act play. Right? Which suggests it’s probably no coincidence that Stefan Golaszewski Speaks About A Girl He Once Loved and Stefan Golaszewski Is A Widower work so well as a double bill; it seems likely they were always meant to be performed together.
Lady Julia
In The Lamplight’s Lady Julia brings August Strindberg’s seminal Miss Julie bang up to date. How does it fare in its new 21st century context?
Belt Up, Tim Crouch and breach of contract
Does Crouch’s The Author breach its own unspoken actor/audience contract?
HALL
Viewed in context, HALL is a necessary step in the evolution of audio-instructed performance to a form capable of telling big, sprawling stories as well as brief, compact ones.
The Author
In the final 15 minutes, The Author is revealed for what it has really been all along: a daring act of self-flagellation by Crouch on behalf of provocative art and controversial artists.
Money
The machine is the undisputed star of the production, which, after a few deliberately confusing false-starts, eventually reveals itself as a parable about the dangers of stock market speculation.
Orestes: Re-Examined
In Full Tilt’s revival of Orestes: Re-Examined, the audience is brought forward as jury to judge the case of Orestes’ matricide and its myriad ramifications.
Mother Courage and Her Children
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.
Scratch Festival
Battersea Arts Centre’s Scratch nights have always been about risk-taking and experimentation, and with Freshly Scratched – one of the two parallel programmes in this year’s Scratch Festival – the venue’s staff are taking almost as big a risk as the audiences and performers.
