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Tmesis Theatre: Wolf Red

Tmesis Theatre: Wolf Red

September 29th, 2012 by

A bright, full moon shone as I walked to Liverpool’s Unity Theatre to see Wolf Red, the first solo show from Elinor Randle, one half of innovative Liverpool-based company Tmesis Theatre. Even in the city it is impossible not to entertain sublunary thoughts of wildness and lurking threat. By even wilder contrast, Wolf Red is ostensibly about a […]

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Panta Rei Theatre Collective: Don Quixote! Don Quixote!

Panta Rei Theatre Collective: Don Quixote! Don Quixote!

August 27th, 2012 by

This show might easily have been a final assessment piece on an MA in Contemporary European Theatre. You can tick off the influences of Beckett, Pirandello, Artaud and Brook in a fairly predictable avant-gardist collage of existential quips, grotesque physicality and random dangling objects (unused). There is evidence of strong performing ability, particularly the female […]

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Circle of Eleven: Leo

Circle of Eleven: Leo

August 23rd, 2012 by

Following the huge success of Leo at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe, where it won both a Fringe and a Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Fringe Award, it was a delight to finally catch Circle of Eleven’s magical and rather moving meditation on one man’s state of mind and experience of solitude. Combining unparallelled acrobatics and state of […]

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Fools Play Collective: Our Soldier

Fools Play Collective: Our Soldier

August 23rd, 2012 by

Having only emerged from East 15 drama school last year, Fools Play Collective have surpassed themselves in their production of Our Soldier, a piece of physical storytelling that places the story of Macbeth among a group of soldiers in wartime. We are guided through the story by keen-eyed reporter Alice Coggins, played by Lottie Ormerod, who does a […]

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Theatergroep WAK: Nothing Is Really Difficult

Theatergroep WAK: Nothing Is Really Difficult

August 21st, 2012 by

Nothing Is Really Difficult features three men (Toon Kuijpers, Dorus van der Meer and Bart Strijbos from Dutch Theatergroep WAK) and an audience in a box – a very big box! On arriving at the venue, a space just outside the George Square Theatre, we find the upside-down wooden box. We know it’s upside down because […]

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