I reviewed The Sonneteer at the Landor Theatre for Everything Theatre: Sebastian Michael was inspired to write The Sonneteer after a friend posted a sonnet a day on Facebook. Reading them sequentially made Michael see them as a story, rather than individual pieces, and his play focuses on those Shakespearean sonnets known as the Fair … Continue reading
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Macbeth in Abney Park Cemetery: review for Everything Theatre
I reviewed Macbeth in Abney Park Cemetery for Everything Theatre: Macbeth makes sense in a graveyard. The knell of death and otherworldliness in Abney Park Cemetery, which is also a nature reserve, makes it a natural place to stage the bloody story of betrayal, hubris, and remorse. Paul Linghorn’s direction makes particularly good use of … Continue reading
Macbeth in Abney Park Cemetery: review for Everything Theatre
I reviewed Macbeth in Abney Park Cemetery for Everything Theatre: Macbeth makes sense in a graveyard. The knell of death and otherworldliness in Abney Park Cemetery, which is also a nature reserve, makes it a natural place to stage the bloody story of betrayal, hubris, and remorse. Paul Linghorn’s direction makes particularly good use of … Continue reading
Kitchen at Rich Mix Theatre: Review for Everything Theatre
I reviewed Kitchen at Rich Mix theatre for Everything Theatre: Kitchen revolves around Jacinta, a young Brazilian émigré arriving in East London in 1978 to work at a biscuit factory. Jacinta’s British aunt Tracey has taken Jacinta under her wing to help her escape the dangers of life in Brazil. Playwright Gaël Le Cornec uses … Continue reading
Kitchen at Rich Mix Theatre: Review for Everything Theatre
I reviewed Kitchen at Rich Mix theatre for Everything Theatre: Kitchen revolves around Jacinta, a young Brazilian émigré arriving in East London in 1978 to work at a biscuit factory. Jacinta’s British aunt Tracey has taken Jacinta under her wing to help her escape the dangers of life in Brazil. Playwright Gaël Le Cornec uses … Continue reading
Review for Everything Theatre: Merely As You Like It at the Cockpit Theatre
I reviewed the Merely Shakespeare Company’s As You Like It at the Cockpit Theatre for Everything Theatre last week: The Cockpit’s ambitious summer venture involves a company of 20 actors performing a different Shakespeare play each month for one night only, with As You Like It being the penultimate in the series. The Merely Shakespeare Company … Continue reading
Review for Everything Theatre: Merely As You Like It at the Cockpit Theatre
I reviewed the Merely Shakespeare Company’s As You Like It at the Cockpit Theatre for Everything Theatre last week: The Cockpit’s ambitious summer venture involves a company of 20 actors performing a different Shakespeare play each month for one night only, with As You Like It being the penultimate in the series. The Merely Shakespeare Company … Continue reading
Dennis Hopper’s The Lost Album at the Royal Academy of Arts
At the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition of Dennis Hopper’s photographic collection The Lost Album I heard one apparently disenchanted visitor saying, “This is just like walking through an exhibition of all my Instagram photos.” The photos really do have the kind of candid, autobiographical feel that is like a collection of contemporary phone camera … Continue reading
Dennis Hopper’s The Lost Album at the Royal Academy of Arts
At the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition of Dennis Hopper’s photographic collection The Lost Album I heard one apparently disenchanted visitor saying, “This is just like walking through an exhibition of all my Instagram photos.” The photos really do have the kind of candid, autobiographical feel that is like a collection of contemporary phone camera … Continue reading
Review for Everything Theatre: Be Here Now at Shoreditch Town Hall
I reviewed Be Here Now at Shoreditch Town Hall for Everything Theatre recently: When I arrived in the theatre the sickly sweet smell of the smoke machine took me straight back to the long-forgotten (and perhaps best forgotten) school discos of my youth. I then promptly sat in the wrong row, the one that performer … Continue reading
In a Merry Hour: Caitlin E McDonald 