Repost: with One Stop Arts closing, I migrated this review here. In a time when social expectations of the female body in public space seem a particularly vexed issue at the forefront of the public imagination, Penthesilea opens vital space for exploring how those expectations might be reimagined. It also begs the question of what we … Continue reading
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Gazing at The National
I adore the National Theatre. There’s always something exciting going on: plays, photography exhibitions, jazz in the foyer. For me it represents the range of possibilities of creative endeavour. Every time I walk in or even just see it from across the river I feel more awake, like something is about to begin. I often … Continue reading
Lights up on Dickie Beau: Blackouts at Soho Theatre
Repost: with One Stop Arts closing, I migrated this review here. At the Soho Theatre, Dickie Beau evokes beautiful and dangerous pictures of two of our most famous screen idols, Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland. This production asks us to revisit our memories of these larger-than-life figures and tear back the curtain – or slap on … Continue reading
Lights up on Dickie Beau: Blackouts at Soho Theatre
Repost: with One Stop Arts closing, I migrated this review here. At the Soho Theatre, Dickie Beau evokes beautiful and dangerous pictures of two of our most famous screen idols, Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland. This production asks us to revisit our memories of these larger-than-life figures and tear back the curtain – or slap on … Continue reading
The Apple
It is hot in London, hot-hot. Everywhere I walk are lobster-faced people, limbs sticky with sweat. Yesterday I walked home in the afternoon from Sunday lunch. I had walked there in the sun over Tower Bridge, mid-tourist season, the bridge clogged with hesitating crowds all wanting the same photo in the same spot, distracted by … Continue reading
The Heart-Stealing The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart at the London Welsh Centre
Repost: with One Stop Arts closing, I migrated this review here. If someone were to design a piece of theatre expressly for me, it could not have been more to my taste than The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart. Strong in all production areas, David Greig’s writing supports creative and energetic performances from Melody Grove, Paul … Continue reading
The Heart-Stealing The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart at the London Welsh Centre
Repost: with One Stop Arts closing, I migrated this review here. If someone were to design a piece of theatre expressly for me, it could not have been more to my taste than The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart. Strong in all production areas, David Greig’s writing supports creative and energetic performances from Melody Grove, Paul … Continue reading
Where there’s life, there’s hope: what happens to the hope at the end of the evening at the Almeida Festival
Repost: with One Stop Arts closing, I migrated this review here. In which two middle-aged men take a knowing glance at the changing nature of their friendship, the thing that is theatre, and the myriad shades of meaning that can be ascribed to the word “mate”. Tim Crouch and Andy Smith provide a thoughtful opening to … Continue reading
Where there’s life, there’s hope: what happens to the hope at the end of the evening at the Almeida Festival
Repost: with One Stop Arts closing, I migrated this review here. In which two middle-aged men take a knowing glance at the changing nature of their friendship, the thing that is theatre, and the myriad shades of meaning that can be ascribed to the word “mate”. Tim Crouch and Andy Smith provide a thoughtful opening to … Continue reading
Dying laughing: Fitzrovia Radio Hour’s Undead! Unloved! Unsolved! at the Horse Hospital
Repost: with One Stop Arts closing, I migrated this review here. Watching the Fitzrovia Radio ensemble pad around on slippered feet at the Horse Hospital creating sound-pictures would make anyone want to be a foley artist. The dulcet sultry tones of Natalie Ball display admirable dexterity. Dan Starkey’s Dutch grammar-disordered Abraham van Helsing in “Bram Stoker’s … Continue reading
In a Merry Hour: Caitlin E McDonald 