‘Bad news – I’m dead.’ says Lucia Joyce. Viewed by the world as the mad daughter of the genius writer James Joyce, Lucia is here to tell us her version of her life story, as we watch her moving from earthly existence to afterlife – a true bardo of becoming. The scenography of the piece […]
Reviews
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Mabou Mines: Lucia’s Chapters of Coming Forth by Day
May 13th, 2015 by Dorothy Max Prior![The Spalding Suite. Photo Helen Maybanks](https://totaltheatre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Spalding_Suite_002_PHOTO_Helen-Maybanks.jpg)
Fuel/Inua Ellams/Benji Reid: The Spalding Suite
May 13th, 2015 by Dorothy Max PriorA theatre show about boys playing basketball: I’m not drawn to the subject, but I like previous work by performance poet and writer Inua Ellams and physical theatre director Benji Reid (who haven’t to my knowledge previously collaborated), and I’m interested to see what they’ll do together. I leave the theatre on a high, delighted […]
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Coney: Early Days (of a better nation)
May 11th, 2015 by Carran WaterfieldConey’s Early Days (of a better nation) – inspired by the 2011 UK riots, the Arab spring, Iceland’s crowd-sourced constitution, and the rise (and fall) of Occupy – is set in a TV studio/balloting station/European Congress meeting hall and it is participatory. Coney propose ‘to put the audience at the heart of their work’; ‘to […]
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Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Ahnen
May 11th, 2015 by Thomas JM WilsonRunning hot on the heals of Auf dem Gebirge hat man ein Geschrei gehört (On the Mountain A Cry Was Heard), also at Sadler’s Wells, Ahnen continues Tanztheatre Wuppertal’s revivals of the lesser seen pieces from their repertoire of works choreographed by the late Pina Bausch. This appears to be the principle strategy as they […]
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Comedie de Picardie: The Lads in Their Hundreds
May 11th, 2015 by Matt RudkinOn the way out of this show I was fortunate enough to meet a French woman who greatly appreciated the talents of the lead actor Tchéky Karyo (star of many films by Luc Bresson, as well as TV show The Missing) – who, she told me, delivered the beautifully written poetry with passion and power. As […]