Writings

Dickie Beau: LOST in TRANS

December 11th, 2015 by

We meet, and the angels sing… LOST in TRANS gives us a plethora of interlocking love stories. Recordings. Traces. Echoes. Our host for the evening is Tiresias, the blind sage who lived part of his life as a man and part as a woman. This was back in the day – you know, Olympus and […]

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Jessie Cave - I Loved Her

Jessie Cave: I Loved Her

December 6th, 2015 by

I Loved Her tells Jessie Cave’s true story about making a baby with a one-date wonder, and salvaging a relationship from the fallout. Part character comedy stand up, part live art with cartoon masks and dodgy shadow puppetry, the shrill tension between the sharp subject matter and giddy form of this show makes it a […]

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fanSHEN - Invisible Treasure

fanSHEN: Invisible Treasure

December 6th, 2015 by

Twenty people, one room, and a seven foot rabbit with questionable intentions, Invisible Treasure describes itself as an ‘electrifying exploration of human relationships, power structures and individual agency’. There are no actors and no plot as such, just an enigmatic display board on one wall offering cryptic instructions which the audience must decode and carry […]

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The Tiger Lillies: Lulu – A Murder Ballad

December 4th, 2015 by

Good Lord, she gets around, this Lulu. Spreads herself about a bit. A couple of plays by Frank Wedekind (Earth Spirit, 1895, and Pandora’s Box, 1904). An opera by Alban Berg. At least four films, including the GW Pabst classic reworking of Pandora’s Box, featuring the legendary Louise Brooks sporting that haircut. A character in […]

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Old Dears Marcia Farquar. Photo Peter Chrisp

Old Dears: A Final Fling for Sacred 2015

December 4th, 2015 by

Dear Diary: Lisa Wolfe reports on a weekend spent in the company of  a feisty bunch of Old Dears at Chelsea Theatre, the culminating event of Sacred 2015  Friday 27 November 8pm Batten down the hatches – we’re entering choppy waters. Old Dears, a weekend of radical feminist performance by an older generation of women, […]

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