Posted by Matt on 2 November, 2010 · Leave a Comment
I didn’t enjoy the Lyric Hammersmith’s revival of Blasted – but you’d think I was sick if I said I had, right?
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Posted by Matt on 29 September, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The Shadow of Sean O’Casey; “Britain’s most provocative playwright”; “Get dressed. The big fellah’s on his way.”
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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 · Leave a Comment
If the intention of 101 is to push us to define our own boundaries, it doesn’t really push hard enough; everything’s well within the tolerance of a typical Fringe audience. But it seems more likely the intention is to give people the power to opt out, then show them that they don’t need to use it, even when doing things that might be a little way outside their normal theatre comfort zone.
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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 23 August, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The whole experience is like studying a fascinating fossil through a microscope. The level of obsession doesn’t seem healthy, and you have to work to understand its relevance to you, but every new angle reveals something else of interest.
Posted by Matt on 16 August, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Idle Motion stick to their winning formula.
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Posted by Matt on 11 August, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Merhdad and Chris share the political football.
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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 15 July, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Serial bank robbery and the murder of eleven people wouldn’t exactly look at home behind the round window, but even though Proto-type’s account of Bonnie and Clyde’s lives of crime is unflinching about the facts, the entire production is suffused with the nostalgic tang of CBBC.
