THEATRE REVIEW – TITUS ANDRONICUS (RSC at Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon)
THEATRE REVIEW – Titus Andronicus (RSC at Swan Theatre, Stratford) It is easy to feel sympathetic towards ‘Titus Andronicus’. One of Shakespeare’s earliest plays (maybe even his first), it is often derided by scholars and critics for sloppiness of language and the odd mix of brutality and black humour. However, if handled correctly, it can...
May 2013 – a month of performance art in Berlin
Breakfast in the sun, panic at brunch and get-together in the evening From May 1 – 31, 2013 over 150 performance artists from 20 different countries are bursting forth into Berlin. More than 110 performances at 60 different locations throughout Berlin will wow audiences over the whole month. “We are particularly pleased to have managed...
Preview: Birds2013, Aristophanes and the internet #birds2013
Birds2013 is a play by Daniel Kelly tracing the development and current role of the Internet and weaves its story into Aristophanes classical Greek play Birds. The protagonists of Birds set out to build ‘a city greater than Athens’ named Cloud Cuckoo Land, Birds2013 compares this utopian thinking to that of those who set about building...
Find a Reading Writer competition 2013. Berkshire based RBL are looking for fresh new writing talent and to find it they’re hosting a competition.
Following the success of RBL Theatre Company’s sell out launch and their 5 STAR (Remotegoat) Twelfth Night in the Minster, Off the Block is back and once again Reading’s “premier professional theatre company” (The Reading Post) are hosting the competition that will see one talented local writer have their work performed by RBL. With a...
Is it Art? Is it Theatre? Of All The People In All The World by @StansCafe
Of All The People In All The World ? 10th Anniversary Homecoming A moving and intriguing representation of the world’s people, politics, history and current affairs, told using 23 tonnes of rice. Birmingham?based theatre company Stan’s Cafe’s celebrate the 10th anniversary of their famed performance piece, Of All The People In All The World, with a...
Schiklgruber…Alias Adolf Hitler – Theatre Review @ Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival
Normal 0 During the performance of SCHIKLGRUBER…ALIAS ADOLF HITLER we are taken to Adolf Hitler’s bunker during the last bleak hours of his life. Told through the medium of puppetry the audience is presented with a dark comedy, where we are introduced to a variety of characters which just happen to be an array of...
Papercut @ Manipulate, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Papercut is a one woman show that is heavily influenced by classic Hollywood cinema, film noir and the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Yael Rasooly is definitely not a blonde Hitchcockian victim, but is in total control of her unique world populated by paper cut outs and an innovative use of objects. Papercut is the second...
The Nutcracker; Never a Dull Moment
The Nutcracker: Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Thursday 10th January, 2013. It’s a Christmas classic, but the Scottish Ballet’s take on this distinctive and memorable show is just as fresh as ever, and an enjoyable feast for all eyes to behold. Enchanting and beautiful, we’re taken on a winter wonderland journey as the story of The Nutcracker...
A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie. The Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke. 28th February 2013.
Agatha Christie has managed to stay popular despite her anachronistic English village domain. Audiences and readers still adore her labyrinthine plots. Ian Dickens’ touring production of ‘A Murder Is Announced’ is the latest adaptation. From the outset it is unmistakably the nineteen fifties and to be more precise, 1953. A notice appears in the Chipping Cleghorn...
