The Poor Kitchen Limelight on Oxford, Limelight Downstairs 8 – 26 May. You can grab your tickets here. Of all the things I would like to inherit in my life, an olive farm in Italy rates around the top. Raised on A Room With A View, I became addicted to E.M. Forster sweetened by a […]
Author Archives: lisathatcher
May
02
Sensitive Guys – The witness as complicit in narrative. (Theatre Review)
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Sensitive Guys Cross Pollinate Productions with JackRabbit Theatre KXT 30 April to 11 May. You can grab your tickets here. The 1968 May revolution events in France are used today by many academics as a symbol of a specifically post-modern revolution. The unrest began with a series of student occupation protests against capitalism, consumerism, American […]
April
30
Pygmalion – Steampunk brings the writers true vision to life. (Theatre Review)
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Pygmalion New Theatre 23 April to 25 May. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Bob Seary The decision by director Deborah Mulhal to use a steampunk aesthetic in her production of Pygmalion has delivered George Bernard Shaw the vital reframing of the play he continually sought after crucial misunderstandings emerged in its staging and […]
April
26
Ajax (after Sophocles) – PTSD, metaphores and community. (Theatre Review)
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Ajax (after Sophocles) Burning House Theatre Company with Old 505 Theatre 23 April to 4 May. You can grab your tickets here. In his program notes, director Robert Johnson explains that any approach toward a classic text (something Burning House theatre company from Melbourne take very seriously) should be founded upon searching for origins of […]
April
25
Frida Kahlo: Viva La Vida – The artist who resisted branding. (Theatre Review)
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Frida Kahlo: Viva La Vida Théâtre Excentrique with The Old 505 Theatre. 23 April to 4 May. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Mansoor Noor For artists Humberto Robles, Anna Jahjah and Kate Bookallil, Frida Kahlo’s ability to resist branding herself is exemplified in the endless attempt to brand her that has surrounded her […]
April
22
Alice in Slasherland – The Post modern assault on bourgeois culture. (Theatre Review)
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Alice in Slasherland Last One Standing Theatre Company with Red Line Productions The Old Fitz Theatre April 18 to May 11. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Robert Catto. @robertcatto on Instagram & Twitter, @robertcattophotographer on Facebook Postmodernism is supposedly a widespread and elusive phenomenon that remains as yet, not properly defined. It is […]
April
21
How To Change the World and Make Bank Doing it – The bloodsport of charity fundrasing. (Theatre Review)
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How to Change the World and Make Bank Doing It Limelight on Oxford 17 – 27 April. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Sam Lax It’s difficult for those of us constantly coming up with new ways of avoiding the “commission monkey” in the shopping mall to understand how this form of fundraising works, […]
April
20
A Little Piece of Ash – The memory of that which we must learn to forget. (Theatre Review)
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A Little Piece of Ash Jackrabbit Theatre at KXT 16-26 April. You can grab your tickets here. Many thinkers argue we grieve in order to stop grieving. What we are aware of, for we have all grieved at some level, is the existence of a tension between the oppressive memory of the past and the […]
April
20
Rabbit Hole – The cycle of a haunted grief. (Theatre Review)
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Rabbit Hole Chippen Street Theratre and Exit Game Productions 18 April to 27 April. You can grab your tickets here. A specter is haunting Becca (Imogen Morgan) and Howie (Peter-William Jamieson) in their nice modern home. For Howie, the symbol of the missing inside his home is comforting. For Becca it inspires an irrevocable sadness. […]
April
18
Appropriation – Containment of power in narrative. (Theatre Review)
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Appropriation Fledgling Theatre Company Studio Blueprint, 17-27 April. You can grab your tickets here. For Paul Gilchrist, the revelation of an ego-doped Fortinbras (Nick O’Regan) chaotically crushing his way to claim the throne bequeathed by Hamlet lends itself to an examination of power as wielded by a white guy. Because this exists as a precursor […]
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