Lorca is Dead (and behind the scenes, I thought I was too)
I don’t think anyone needs me to spell out the lessons to be learned from this incident. Just don’t do what I did.
The Caucasian Chalk Circle ****
3BUGS weave a convincing illusion of thrown-togetherness around their production of Brecht’s scathing polemic against class and wealth divides.
Sub Rosa ****
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.
The Master and Margarita
Where Bulgakov’s novel is a sweeping satire concerned with entire classes and communities, the OUDS production focuses closely on the individual characters: a more dramatic approach, but one that reduces the scope of the themes and ideas from a communal to a capital level.
The Night Heron
A character-driven play, powered by the friction that occurs when personalities clash in a confined space.
Felicity Ward Reads From The Book Of Moron ***
Has to inflate embarrassing mishaps into excruciating humiliations.
Legend of the Card Ninja ****
Flinging playing cards like throwing stars.
Maff Brown – Looking After Lesal **
You probably had to be there.
Stripped ****
Hannah Chalmers proves herself a versatile performer in this one-woman show, dropping comfortably into an array of archetypes.
