Reviews

Tom Bailey & Jez riley French: Nightwalk

June 3rd, 2014 by

Following a year-long residency with the National Trust, this audio walk by Tom Bailey and Jez riley French features a well produced and multilayered series of sound portraits, detailing some of the history of Leigh Woods. It takes place at night which opens a number of possibilities: it changes the focus of our perception, confronts […]

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Inconvenient Spoof: Buddhism: Is It Just For Losers?

June 3rd, 2014 by

Engaging, interesting and funny, Buddhism: Is It Just For Losers keeps the audience chortling if not belly-laughing throughout. Premiering in last year’s Fringe at the Nightingale, this year reworked and at the Marlborough Theatre, it was a safe pick for the Fringe reflected in enthusiastic full houses (sandwiched in a superb range of programming at […]

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Atlas Movement Company: Wonderland

June 3rd, 2014 by

This is a modest production by a young company on a very small stage, but clearly much enjoyed by the youngsters and their parents in attendance. From the repeating wordplay, to the well-timed audience interactions and the inclusion of a just-scary-enough Queen of Hearts, this concise reworking of Alice in Wonderland demonstrates throughout a keen […]

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Tim Crouch & The Nightingale Theatre: HOST

June 3rd, 2014 by

‘Host’ is one of those delicious words whose multiple meanings sit, humming, in tension with one other, creating a delicious mental paradox. Both intimate, generous even, and legion, slightly threatening, its abstract use in the project’s title leaves all possible meanings in suspension. As if what exactly the project is to become has yet to […]

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Search Party: My Son & Heir

June 3rd, 2014 by

Sometimes you get to watch artists hit their stride and step majestically into full expression of their ability and passion to perform for an audience. Here Search Party present something beautiful and excoriating, a show which hit me over the head and made my noggin ring like a bell. Pete Phillips and Jodie Hawkes, who […]

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