Posted by Matt on 11 April, 2010 · Leave a Comment
It’s fair to assume that few people watch porn for the plot, and it’s best to take the same approach to Porn – the Musical.
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Posted by Matt on 24 March, 2010 · Leave a Comment
4.48 Psychosis is a gift for a director. Kane’s text – her last – is more prose poem than script, lacking stage directions or delineated characters: a nearly blank slate onto which a director can impose context, character and narrative.
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Posted by Matt on 29 January, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The men at the top are on their way out, but does that mean the people below them get a look-in? Does it heck.
Posted by Matt on 22 January, 2010 · 2 Comments
What do you remember about the Noughties? (Yes, it turns out that is what we’re calling them.) Theatre503 asked that question to ten playwrights – five established, five as-yet unproduced – and the result is Decade, a collection of ten ten-minute plays, each one representing a single year.
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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 4 December, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Jiggery Pokery is a reminder of just how much can be achieved onstage through the craft of a single talented performer.
Posted by Matt on 17 November, 2009 · 2 Comments
At first glance, Public Property is a boilerplate Trafalgar Studio 2 production. On closer inspection, however, this is something of a rare find: a play about three gay men in which the characters’ sexuality is almost incidental, an extra thematic layer rather than the piece’s raison d’être.
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Posted by Matt on 9 November, 2009 · Leave a Comment
A couple of flat minutes aren’t enough to derail a show that deftly balances satire and highbrow wit with pure silliness and knob gags (referred to as such by the self-aware duo). Not to mention the fact that Andrew Jones’ Nick Griffin impersonation alone is worth the entry price.
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 2 October, 2009 · Leave a Comment
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.
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