Have you ever wondered what that little voice in your head looks like? Maybe it's a small child, a 'devil-like' figure? Some would have you believe it's a chimp! Well, One Duck Theatre have the answer, and in Lad, the lastest production from writer-performer duo Rhys Dunlop and Alan Mahon, that voice in your head is a twentysomething manchild!, attired in an oversized patterned shirt, very tight cycling shorts and in possession of an oh-so seductive Irish accent! His primal aim in life is to … [Read more...]
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Small Island adapted by Helen Edmundson at the Olivier Theatre
After the recent Windrush Generation government scandal, this National Theatre production of Small Island couldn’t have come at a better time. Based on Andrea Levy’s 2004 novel and adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson, it tells the stories of two families, one white and one black leading up to the arrival of immigrant workers from the Caribbean on the Empire Windrush in 1948. Read the full review...
CORPSE! by Gerald Moon at Park Theatre (Park90) | Review
It’s December 11th, 1936 and a very tall, elegant middle-aged woman returns to her Soho flat from a trip to Fortnum & Mason to stock up with items for lunch. As she begins to undress, we see that all is not what it seems. The woman is, in fact, itinerant actor Rupert Farrant and under his coat is a series of pockets where he has secreted a stick of French bread, some caviar, a bottle of wine etc. for Farrant hasn’t been shopping at Fortnum’s but shoplifting. On top of that, Mrs McGee, his … [Read more...]
Daughter by Adam Lazarus at Battersea Arts Centre | Review
There’s a certain friendliness about Canadians (if you still haven’t seen Come From Away, it’s worth seeing) that is sometimes parodied in American television shows. In an episode of the animated sitcom Family Guy, a prisoner points to an exit and asks an officer, “Can I go through here?” The response comes back, “Just be back by bedtime,” and the prisoner agrees to do so, before leaving the premises. There is another sort of Canadian, however. In Daughter, Adam Lazarus spins a hard-hitting (in … [Read more...]
Our Man In Havana by Spies Like Us Theatre | Review
Graham Greene’s political farce about a vacuum cleaner salesman turned bogus intelligence source-for-pay to the British Secret Services has always been a brilliant example of the hilarity that can ensue when obsessions and avarice meet. Spies Like Us Theatre has seized the opportunity of a balmy pre-revolutionary Cuban setting inhabited by the British ruling class in its full absurdity to go all out with their physical theatre japes. As such, much jaunty amusement does indeed ensue. Director … [Read more...]
The Revenger’s Tragedy at the Barbican Theatre | Review
Cheek by Jowl presents their Italian-language version of Thomas Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy. In essence, a tightly wound, tense, complex unfolding as the eponymous revenger, Vindice (Fausto Cabra) stalks the Duke in the pursuit of immediate justice. Through Vindice's hunting, his brother, his mother and sister are pulled into a knot of binary justice. As for the target of reprisal, the Duke's sons scuff the lapels of tailored Italian suits as they jostle for predominance, and a sultry … [Read more...]