Posted by Matt on 7 August, 2010 · Leave a Comment
When the human race has all but died out, when the Earth has erased almost all evidence of our existence, the last redoubt of our once great civilisation will be … the back office of a microwave meal manufacturer.
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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 2 October, 2009 · 1 Comment
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.
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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 10 June, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The Moon The Moon is many overlapping things, but never feels like collage; its elements complement rather than contradict one another.
Posted by Matt on 9 May, 2009 · Leave a Comment
In 2008, Ché Walker’s The Frontline became the first contemporary play staged at Shakespeare’s Globe. Now, in 2009, Matthew Dunster’s production has returned to the venue: confirmation, if it were needed, that contemporary work now forms a permanent part of the Globe’s programming.
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 12 March, 2009 · 3 Comments
It’s all too easy to remain detached from the subject of Iraq. Stovepipe aims to pick us up off the sidelines and deposit us bodily into the midst of the relief effort.
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Posted by Matt on 18 February, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Incest is a theme that can’t help but eclipse all others in its power to raise a reaction. This play is going to offend some people – and isn’t that the litmus test for vital art?
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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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