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 4 October, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The best bits of Dougal Irvine’s new musical call to mind a sort of booze-hazy Rashomon.
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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 27 September, 2010 · Leave a Comment
If George Osborne slashes public subsidy for the arts on 20 October, then to survive, theatre will have to start behaving like any other commodity: subject to the same market forces as a falafel wrap or a wire sculpture.
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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 25 August, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Has to inflate embarrassing mishaps into excruciating humiliations.
Posted by Matt on 23 August, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Hannah Chalmers proves herself a versatile performer in this one-woman show, dropping comfortably into an array of archetypes.
Posted by Matt on 23 August, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Impressive piece of verbatim theatre exploring the modern media.
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Posted by Matt on 18 August, 2010 · Leave a Comment
It’s notoriously difficult to choke verbatim theatre into life on stage, but you wouldn’t guess that from watching Pedal Pusher.
Posted by Matt on 16 August, 2010 · Leave a Comment
They must be aiming to be ‘so bad it’s good’. Unfortunately they aren’t quite that bad.
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