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 14 May, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Will Adamsdale is 36, and didn’t send his first email until the year 2005. The Human Computer is both a confession and a defence of his IT incompetence.
Posted by Matt on 6 March, 2010 · Leave a Comment
A charitable movie reviewer might describe Return as “beautifully shot”. It’s one of those low-budget British films so beloved of awards committees, in which nothing very much happens but every frame is painstakingly composed, every close-up and gradual fade-through-black marinaded in a rich sense of atmosphere and place.
Posted by Matt on 14 December, 2009 · Leave a Comment
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.
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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 20 June, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Only at a Derren Brown show could I have ended up standing on stage in a curtained cabinet with a bag on my head.
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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 16 May, 2009 · Leave a Comment
There’s a crisis pupating on the streets of Great Britain. The name of that crisis is Middle Class Extremism, also known as Bourgeois Fundamentalism.
Posted by Matt on 12 February, 2009 · 1 Comment
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.
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