Amidst the very misty, thick stage smoke I can just about find a seat. Before Song of the Goat’s Macbeth commences, director Grzegorz Bral addresses us with the invitation to ‘watch it with your ears’. Lights dim and when vision permits we see a semi-circle of performers bathed in muted half light, amber toned. Half seen, all […]
Writings
Unfolding Theatre: Best in the World
August 11th, 2012 by Edward WrenTake a moment to recall a point in your life when you did exactly the right thing at the right time. Unfolding Theatre Company ask this of their audience in their subtly powerful one-man production Best in the World. It is an inspirational hour that explores what it is like to be the best at something, […]
Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio: Detention
August 11th, 2012 by Miriam (Mim) KingHong Kong company Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio’s Detention is a non-verbal physical theatre piece and acrobatic comedy combining clowning, martial arts and percussion. The scene for the show is a high school class room, its blackboard chalked with the words ‘be a good student’. Enter, one a at a time, three mischievous, highly active teenage boys. They […]
Molly Naylor and the Middle Ones: My Robot Heart
August 10th, 2012 by Richard LaveryDevised by performer Molly Naylor, supported by real-life band The Middle Ones, and inspired by Japanese experiments with robots, My Robot Heart is a simple storytelling play. Beautifully engaging, it looks at love through three interlocking stories centred upon an impending wedding, with all of the characters multi-roled by Naylor herself with the help of a few […]
Penny Arcade: Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore!
August 9th, 2012 by Dorothy Max Prior‘There are lesbians in this room; there are gay men in this room; there are heterosexuals in this room; there are bisexual people in this room, are there not? There are transsexual people, asexual people… There are at least five kinds of gay men in this room and they don’t agree with each other about […]
