Franko B’s Because of Love is the closest encounter I have had with Joseph Conrad’s Colonel Kurtz to date. Like a seemingly disciplined inmate, the performer paces up and down along the celluloid wall of his recollection cell, readying himself for a confrontation to come rather than sparring with images of televised conflicts, military parades or 1960s […]
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![Franko B, Because of Love | Photo: Hugo Glendinning](https://totaltheatre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/franko-because-love.jpg)
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Various Artists: Cloud Dance Sundays
June 7th, 2013 by Rebecca JS NiceA tiny theatre, in a quirky pub in Kentish Town, on a lazy Sunday afternoon, hosted the first of what will be a monthly programme of Cloud Dance Sundays. Confronting harrowing subject matter, the billing was far from laid back, proving that Cloud Dance is serious in its initiative to reach new audiences (an ambition […]
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Chris Cresswell: Qua Qua Qua
June 7th, 2013 by Bill ParslowChris Cresswell’s persona in Qua Qua Qua, his homage to Jaques Tati, is a long, long way from the Chris Creswell who plays the booming frontman and impresario of the wacky high energy cabaret Voodoo Vaudeville, or from Creswell’s alter ego in that show, the unctuous and knowing Baby Warhol hand puppet, floating in a picture frame […]
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Spun Glass Theatre: You Left Me In The Dark
June 7th, 2013 by Miriam (Mim) KingThere’s a sense of anticipation that comes with being led down down into the Old Police Cells underneath Brighton Town Hall. The history of this place, the old brickwork, the windowless subterranean world; the echoey acoustics and the dusty, musty smells. This atmospheric space is the venue for Spun Glass Theatre’s production You Left Me in […]
![Angela Clerkin, The Bear | Photo: Sheila Burnett](https://totaltheatre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/angela-clerkin-bear-carousel.jpg)
Angela Clerkin: The Bear
June 7th, 2013 by Geraldine GiddingsWhat is curious about The Bear is the way it creeps up on you – how you think it’s about one thing and halfway through you start to realise that it’s really about something else entirely. The story goes that Angela was a solicitor’s clerk, working on a murder case. On her own one day with the […]