Lights, camera, action! Well, not quite – no cameras involved, although The Capital is filmic in feel. At first there is an empty stage, the screen at the back bathed in an icy blue light. There’s a whirring noise, and the two ‘travelators’ on the stage – walkways or conveyer belts that can move in […]
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Peeping Tom: Father (Vader)
February 4th, 2019 by Dorothy Max PriorMemories, dreams, reflections… Oh, what it is to be old. Father is old. A ‘dirty old man’. The life of the patriarch is almost done, and he spends his days in an old folks’ home, sitting in a wheelchair, whiling away the hours. What a difference a day makes – or not, if one day […]
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Rites of Passage – LIMF 2019
February 1st, 2019 by Ciaran HammondTwo of the UK’s top ensemble physical theatre companies, Gecko and Theatre Re, presented shows at this year’s London International Mime Festival. Ciaran Hammond was there to bear witness… A man is spat out of a helter-skelter slide into a pile of teddy bears, in a small crescent-shaped room; beginning a surrealistic life’s journey. Various other […]
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Tom Hughes: Daughters of the Sun
January 14th, 2019 by Florence BradyMaxim Gorky’s Children of the Sun (1905) is a play, like many other plays, in which women get talked over quite a lot. Set in the Russian cholera epidemic of 1862, it is a chastisement of a self-absorbed intellectual elite in the wake of an impending crisis. Tom Hughes’ Daughters of the Sun is not […]
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Thomas Martin & Pat Ashe: Beta Public IX
January 11th, 2019 by Joe StevensIt’s been more than five years since the first Beta Public in 2013, reviewed in Total Theatre by Sophie London. Now, for their ninth showcase at Camden People’s Theatre in North London, theatre director Thomas Martin and video game producer and curator Pat Ashe return with more carefully curated games (Ashe) and theatre (Martin) that […]