Author Archive
Posted in August 10th, 2009
Oh dear oh dear, this is what happens when chefs open nightclubs, stonemasons become dentists, or lawyers try their hand at poetry: someone with a single dimension of talent tries to punch above their weight and chases their own haymaker around until they throw themselves over.
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Posted in August 10th, 2009
Five nutty immigration police go off the rails in this daft and amusingly self-aware farce. With occasional improvisation, casually and cheerfully executed, our five characters set off on a bizarre journey of layered fantasy.
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Posted in August 8th, 2009
Eleven bemused and chronically attention-deficient theatre-goers stagger into comprehension as the play they are watching unfolds.
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Posted in August 8th, 2009
Elegantly set in City Chambers the lesson starts, encouragingly, with a glass of bubbly and salty aperitifs, although you will have to forgive the cheesy music.
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Posted in August 25th, 2008
Conceived in mediocrity and gestated in langour, no great expenditure of talent graces any part of this utterly un-provocative judicial commentary.
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Posted in August 25th, 2008
It’s hard to know what to make of this show. It’s an oddity. It looks like a play in much the same way as a large box on wheels looks like a car – it’s the nearest apparent thing
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Posted in August 20th, 2008
Dazzled, naïve, trusting Orgon worships “Tartuffe”, an apparently pious and perfectly virtuous man who speaks with divine authority but is in fact ruthless and deeply corrupt.
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Posted in August 20th, 2008
John Heminges, anxious that the Bard’s work should endure, is delighted to discover “ghosts of the future” (his 2008 audience) and that they know the name of Shakespeare.
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Posted in August 19th, 2008
The unyielding, unflappable self-surety of Salvador Dalí is –preserved? recreated? – resurrected for the small stage in this smack profile.
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Posted in August 19th, 2008
An assemblage of U.S. military personnel have their interviews recreated on stage by a bunch of actors and actresses.
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