It is the Führer’s 56th birthday, his downfall is imminent, and unease festers in the air of his Berlin Bunker. Stuffed Puppets’ Neville Tranter portrays Adolf’s subservient valet and takes us through a cavalcade of infamous figures, from Eva Braun to Goering and Goebbels, in the puppets he manipulates. Each is a self-obsessed caricature, manifested in […]
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Ulrike Quade Company, Jo Strømgren Kompani, Nordland Visual Theatre: The Writer
September 2nd, 2011 by Thomas BaconInspired by the life and work of Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun, performer Ulrike Quade presents the audience with the solitary figure of a woman, surround by neatly stacked piles of books, reading and making notes. A gentle blue hue illuminates the space, and she is tiny in comparison to the vast environment – a […]