There’s No One New Around You: A Tinder Musical The Fuse Box, Factory Theatre from April 28 to April 30 – You can grab your tickets here. Keira Daly and Mark Simpson offer a skit as the perfect opener to There’s No One New Around You: A Tinder Musical. A man and a woman sit […]
Monthly Archives: April 2016
April
28
There’s No One New Around You: A Tinder Musical – Confused, tragic life makes art. (Theatre Review)
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April
25
Belleville – Live for your desires. (Theatre Review)
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Belleville Mad March Hare Theatre company Old Fitz Theatre from 20 April to 12 May You can grab your tickets here. The primary crises of Belleville are communication and desire. Desire and its lack exist in language all through the production. Zack (Josh Anderson) and Abby (Taylor Ferguson) live in Belleville, a fashionably “now” suburb […]
April
23
Orphans – Should I stay or should I go. (Theatre Review)
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Orphans Old Fitz Theatre, Late Show 19-30 April. You can grab your tickets here. When Liam (Liam Nunan) bursts in on Helen (Jacki Mison) and Danny (Christopher Morris) having their quiet celebratory dinner to welcome the news of Helen’s pregnancy, he causes a confrontation, not with our own cultural values and the imminent threat of […]
April
22
A Man Walks Into A Bar – Optimism and faith when joking at the local. (Theatre review)
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A Man Walks Into A Bar Off the Avenue Productions at Blood Moon Theatre 21 April – 7 May You can grab your tickets here. Photo credits: Angie Carmen Photography “A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein What is a bar but the ultimate combination of […]
April
21
Shut Up and Drive; or Sex, Liberty and the Automobile – Love and Lust with our cars. (Theatre Review)
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Shut Up And Drive; or Sex, Liberty and the Automobile Subtlenuance in associatin with bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company. 9-23 April, King Cross Theatre. You can grab your tickets here. “After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.” Crash (J.G. Ballard) Shut Up And Drive […]
April
20
The Best Brothers – Language as the vehicle for the unsayable. (Theatre Review)
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The Best Brothers Old 505 Theatre, 5 Eliza Street 13 – 30 April 2016. You can grab your tickets here. It was Wittgenstein who gave us the idea that a seemingly rash run of gibberish may be philosophically illuminating. More than this, seeing language used in a context, and understanding that context matters, may lead […]
April
18
Theatre I missed: Space Cats (Theatre review)
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Sometimes I see performances and for various reasons are not able to review within the limited run of the show. If the show is something special, I still like to write about it – even if I’m playing catch up. Space Cats 505 Theatre Find out more about Space Cats here. Photo Credits Andre Vasquez […]
April
09
Plaything – Humour as a defense against the tragedy of being human. (Theatre review)
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Plaything The Depot Theatre from 30 March to 16 April. You can grab your tickets here. Images by Katy Green Loughrey The question of humour and its role in our life exists at the heart of Simon Dodd’s Plaything. Two people, a female and a male, find themselves trapped on a stage – a limited […]
April
03
Metamorphosis – The story that transforms itself, the production that transforms the story. (Theatre Review)
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Metamorphosis Throwing Shade Theatre Company The Fuse Box Studio, The Factory Theatre, 31 March – 2 April Metamorphosis is now closed, but you can get more info about possible future shows here. It is accepted that one of the many great talents of Franz Kafka is that he created his own past, his own predecessors. […]
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