Writings

The Frequency d’Ici: Free Time Radical

The Frequency d’Ici: Free Time Radical

August 25th, 2011 by

This slow-burning and poignant new drama by the artists formerly known as Top of the World (responsible for 2008’s Fringe First Award-winningPaperweight) shows the company confidently deepening their unique focus on the challenges of what it is to be human, and particularly male, in the modern world. The production is grounded in powerfully nuanced performances […]

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Quarantine: Entitled

Quarantine: Entitled

August 24th, 2011 by

Let’s hear it for the technicians, those anonymous, uncredited foot soldiers of the performing arts who, dressed in black, with bowed heads, put in the cables, the leads, the woofers, the tweeters, the mixing desk, the amp, the mics, the floods, the cans, the spots… Quarantine’s Entitled puts the technicians centrestage, using the usually hidden choreography that […]

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ShadyJane: Sailing On

ShadyJane: Sailing On

August 24th, 2011 by

Somewhere in between ‘missing’ and ‘presumed drowned’ is – what? The limbo of the ladies’ loos, that’s what. So here we are, six of us (ladies and gents, the gents looking somewhere in-between embarrassed and intrigued), and as always there’s a queue, with two of three cubicles occupied – one by Virginia Woolf, and one […]

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Melanie Wilson and Abigail Conway: every minute, always

Melanie Wilson and Abigail Conway: every minute, always

August 24th, 2011 by

Reviewed by Dorothy Max Prior and Andy Roberts Her: We’re invited to come with a partner or friend. It’s a trip to the cinema, I’ve found a nice young man, and we’re offered the back row and a box of popcorn (‘salty or sweet?’) by the prettily-uniformed usherette. Well, what could be better on a […]

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Tonight Sandy Grierson Will Lecture Dance and Box ¦ Photo: Idil Sukan

Sandy Grierson / Lorne Campbell: Tonight Sandy Grierson Will Lecture Dance and Box

August 23rd, 2011 by

‘Arthur Cravan: poet and boxer, captain of industry, sailor of the Pacific, muleteer, orange-picker in California, hotel thief, snake charmer, grandson of the Queen’s chancellor, nephew of Oscar Wilde, lumberjack in the great forests, chauffeur in Berlin, Alfred Lord Tennyson’s great nephew’…and so the list goes on. He is best known as a writer and […]

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