This new play, written by Martin Mulgrew, is a jewel. A four hander, one hour in length it is put on in a large room, in costume but using an expanse of floor about ten feet deep as a stage (in the front row you could touch the cast), with no scenery just cast shadows with the air conditioning set to create a chilly atmosphere (bring your coat). This production is performed by the Tower Theatre Company at The Proud Archivist, a stunning architect designed building situated on the walkway … [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...
Romeo and Juliet at Club Verona Theatrro Technis – Review
This production brings Romeo and Juliet, the archetypal lovers from Verona, 1597, bang up to date in Camden, 2015, by the means of music, Converse trainers and a mostly youthful cast. Shakespeare’s words may have been written in an Elizabethan England when the previously time-honoured custom of arranged marriage was a hot, controversial topic but the central issue of this play, attempts by some families to control the desires and reproductive power of their young, remains a living and painful … [Read more...]
The Point At Which It Last Made Sense – Review
This is a beautiful and intriguing piece of work about beauty and the ways in which it is harnessed, homogenised and distorted for commercial purposes. Through delicate use of movement, words and music along with effective imagery and film displayed on a floor to ceiling screen, the performance shows while beauty may exist in objective isolation, once a context is applied, it may be made ridiculous, even dangerous in its power to project inappropriate meaning. The production is interspersed … [Read more...]