Review – Agnes of God
Agnes of God quickly establishes its premise: a young nun is found in her quarters, bleeding and alone, having apparently murdered her new-born baby.
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Review – Breaker
Anyone who heard the recent performance of Peer Gynt perfomed by the BBCSO featuring Irish actors playing the dramatic parts will have noticed (or ‘can imagine’ for you blushing culture-absconders) how perfectly appropriate the brogue fitted with the folksy mythical themes and characters.
Review – Glory Dazed
The writing is unassuming but fearless, the acting superb and the spell woven subtly, only broken by the applause when you realise – that was really bloody good.
Review – Angry Young Man
The story has political undertones, but when you come down to it, it’s a damn good comedy that touches on many different facets of immigration.
Review – Daisy Bates: Tales of Kabbarli
It took me a little while to connect with Daisy, I’m not sure if this was just my ear tuning to her Irish accent or if it was due to her ditheriness at the start, but once the stories of her Aboriginal people and her time at Ooldea started to flow it was hard not to be transported back to the desert.
Review – The Terrible Infants
The music is high octane, big band inspired and loud. The props, costumes, staging are all very akin to a travelling circus. The brilliant use of everyday objects to create larger than life babies or a swarm of bees is also very clever.
Review – The Origin of Species…
If all science was taught this way at school, maybe I’d be working for NASA today.
Review – His Ghostly Heart
While the concept isn’t completely unheard of, theatre in the dark is still a rarely used technique. And even rarer still is the correct execution. But under Martha Lott’s direction, this performance is completely, even unnaturally so, in the dark.
Review – Squidboy
Imagine a small child at play in his room pretending to be a squid, jumping from one whimsical adventure to the next. Now swap that small child with a towering, bearded actor, and you have Squidboy.
Review – Fleeto – Paddy Cunneen
Shakespeare and Greek tragedy rolled into one and spat back out in the reality of Glasgow gang life and lingo.
10 Quick Qs – Squidboy – Trygve Wakenshaw
2. Describe your show Twitter style, 140 characters or less.
An oddly charming squid fills the stage with imaginary friends, flora and fauna until the tentacles of his mind get tangled.
10 Quick Qs – Fleeto/Wee Andy – Paddy Cunneen
2. Describe your show Twitter style, 140 characters or less.
A stark, stylised theatrical encounter with the emotional and social realities of knife crime – delivered via bruisingly poetic monologues.
10 Quick Qs – The Origin of Species… – John Hinton
Name of the show:
The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection or the Survival of (R)Evolutionary Theories in the face of Scientific and Ecclesiastical Objections: being a Musical Comedy about Charles Darwin (1809-1882).
Review – Rough Trade – The Violent Romantics
ROUGH Trade is not for the faint hearted.
Think Fight Club meets 1984 meets Big Brother.
10 Quick Qs – Rough Trade – The Violent Romantics
Rough Trade, the show where savagery and femininity intertwine in the glorious name of Reality Entertainment. Don’t be fooled by their pretty, painted faces.
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