Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review – Charlie Dupre Presents: The Stories of Shakey P
Taking to the stage with exuberance, Charlie Dupre begins by telling us we are here for a lecture, but after his first furious story it is obvious this is no traditional lecture. Dupre begins by imagining a rap battle between Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. Here our lecturer sets the scene: interpreting Shakespeare in a...
Anna Karenina: Eifman Ballet
To me, ballet is one of those art forms where even if you don’t understand or enjoy it, you can’t help but sit mesmerised at the talent and the outcome. Not pretending to know the first technical thing about ballet, I do happen to love Russian literature. In particular, Anna Karenina, Tolstoy’s slightly shorter, albeit...
PLATFORM A.D.
3/11/11 Actors Church, London In the beautiful setting of the Actors Church in Covent Garden, I seated myself second row from the front and anticipated the performance ahead – a platform of emerging dance artists, ready to excite me with their fresh and inspiring approach to choreography, just like those of the Judson Church in...
‘Entitled’, at Curve, Leicester
Just – awe. That’s what I felt on seeing Susan and Darren, the Quarantine production which has haunted me since its first staging four years ago. That was all brought back to me this weekend when, in the Entitled audience I turned round to see a line of gawping 17 year old faces – they’re...
