The Disappearance of Sadie Jones enacts the Newton’s cradle mutual rebound between the eponymous heroine’s mental illness and the reality around her. The form is kaleidoscopic, the chronology dislocated, the viewpoint subjective, and the world artfully disorientating. The characters of Sadie’s sister and lover drift through other identities, archetypal (‘the dead’), allegorical (a swindling barrow […]
Writings
![Hannah Silva, The Disappearance of Sadie Jones](https://totaltheatre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/disappearane-sadie-jones1.jpg)
![The Wrong Crowd, HAG](https://totaltheatre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/wrong-crowd-hag1.jpg)
The Wrong Crowd: HAG
October 29th, 2013 by Geraldine GiddingsBalding, and with spines rather than hair; with deep-set glittering eyes and wrinkly, stretched skin covering a huge, flattened, almost alien face; with claw hands, hunched back, scrawny neck, and a hobbling but alarmingly spry gait – the larger-than-life puppet of Baba Yaga is a real treat. Manipulated with gusto and a treacly thick Scots […]
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Rosana Cade: Walking : Holding
October 28th, 2013 by Lisa WolfeIt is a pleasant enough way to spend forty minutes on a wet Saturday afternoon, walking around town holding hands with a succession of people of undetermined sexuality. Conversation could, as the creator of the piece Rosana Cade said at the outset, come from either of us, or not come at all. As we set […]
![Gare St Lazare Players, Waiting for Godot](https://totaltheatre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/waiting-godot1.jpg)
The Gathering
October 26th, 2013 by Lisa WolfeLisa Wolfe reports from the Dublin Theatre Festival 2013 Ireland 2013 is branded by a concept called The Gathering. It calls for the international diaspora to come home to the old country for while. It encompasses sport, aviation, business and the arts. There is the Garda versus the NYPD Boxing Tournament, The Irish Global Pub […]
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Greg Wohead: Hurtling
October 15th, 2013 by Thomas BaconThe lives of others, unknown and known, are filled with the perpetual motion of existence. Like them, you and I travel in our existence through time and space, hurtling towards an inevitable conclusion. For the most part this bond that unites us is seen yet unspoken – it’s analogous to an over-filled commuter train, where […]