Writings

Fables for a Boy

Adrian Sandvaer: Fables for a Boy

April 7th, 2016 by

This performance incorporates theatre, musical theatre and visual theatre in a variety of styles to tell several stories, the main one being a young boy’s challenging coming of age to be a teenager. While his parents are going through an acrimonious split, he finds comfort in the fantasy worlds created by his grandmother, until, that […]

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Kate Darach - Moon Tales - Photo by Daniel Stevens

Kate Darach: Moon Tales

April 7th, 2016 by

Like a classic old lady from the woods in a fairy tale, wicker basket on arm, headscarf, dark shawl, and in front of a circular projection of twigs brushing a cloudy sky, Lizzie addresses us. She tells us she is ‘old now, of no use but to tell stories’. She lets us in on ancient-sounding […]

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Deborah Pearson - Made Visible - Photo by Mark Douet

Deborah Pearson: Made Visible

April 5th, 2016 by

I had quite a few expectations going into Made Visible, but I wasn’t anticipating that it would be wry, and funny. The humour is the play’s saving grace as it retreads a conversation which in real life often threatens to disappear up its own handwringing white angst. In short, it is a dramatisation of a […]

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Broken Cabaret - Something Something Lazarus

Broken Cabaret: Something Something Lazarus

April 5th, 2016 by

Something Something Lazarus, a title you always have to confirm is the actual title whenever you talk about it, is ostensibly a musical, but one which interrupts its form.  The show is structured around the Midnight Sun, an ailing cabaret club, and a setting much like the King’s Head venue it takes place in. The […]

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Hannah Sullivan - With Force and Noise

Hannah Sullivan: With Force and Noise

April 5th, 2016 by

Framed as an experimental collaboration between performance artists and costume designer, this show appears not quite as sold. Rather than accoutrements assembled before our eyes in tandem with the action, this is twenty-five minutes of one (already clad) woman talking. An entirely valid dramaturgy, just not what the marketing had led me to expect. Sullivan’s […]

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