Le Mote Juste give a virtuoso physical performance of Gogol’s short story, with a minimalist stage set and furious swapping of characters and postures drawing the audience through the narrative. There are some great comic moments: the hunting of the cats needed for a fur collar is extremely funny, and the demeanour of Akaky Akakievich […]
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Beckett Project Paris: Here All Night
May 17th, 2013 by Beccy SmithBeckett was a writer fascinated by form. His plays and novels continually redefined literary and performance models in his attempts to ‘accommodate the mess’ of man’s place in the modern world. It is the writer’s commitment to form which has governed the Beckett Estate to guard so fiercely the staging instructions of his plays; one […]
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Pieter De Buysser and Hans Op de Beeck: Book Burning
May 16th, 2013 by Lisa WolfeTelling a story through parallel voices is a familiar theatrical device – witness Michael Pinchbeck, Chris Goode and others. Here, though, we have a story told by a theoretical cat (Schrödinger’s, no less), the writer/actor Pieter De Buysser, and a character called Sebastian who Pieter tells us is fictional. The main story belongs to Sebastian. […]
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Second Impression Theatre: In Your Dreams!
May 15th, 2013 by Bill ParslowThe impossibly awful Val opens the proceedings by ranting at Jess for taking lunch-breaks and for her pedestrian progress in her work. As she goes off to complain to the MD (again), her sweet and new-agey colleague Erin sympathises, and speaks admiringly of Jess’ relationship with her boyfriend. The scene is set for a piece […]
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Banana Bag & Bodice: Beowulf – A Thousand Years of Baggage
May 15th, 2013 by Lisa WolfeThe initial framing device of Beowulf – A Thousand Years of Baggage is strong: three characters with a different take are our guides to the Anglo-Saxon epic poem. Each has their own intonation and style of speech; I particularly like the literary academic who speaks in that odd way that Air Cabin Crew do, emphasising certain words […]