Repost: with One Stop Arts closing, I migrated this review here. Katie Richardson’s Lotta Quizeen is a charming pastiche of several female TV cooking show presenters. Shelf Life features some fun ribald interactive party games but ultimately struggles to keep its energy up. At the Battersea Arts Centre. Before entering Lotta Quizeen’s Guide to Managing the … Continue reading
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Open Your Eyes to Very Still and Hard to See by Steve Yockey at the Etcetera Theatre
Repost: with One Stop Arts closing, I migrated this review here. BeLT’s Very Still and Hard to See builds a dark ambience from a thoughtful script by Steve Yockey. While the premise is an encounter with an external manifestation of evil, as the show progresses it becomes clear that it is actually an exploration of the … Continue reading
Open Your Eyes to Very Still and Hard to See by Steve Yockey at the Etcetera Theatre
Repost: with One Stop Arts closing, I migrated this review here. BeLT’s Very Still and Hard to See builds a dark ambience from a thoughtful script by Steve Yockey. While the premise is an encounter with an external manifestation of evil, as the show progresses it becomes clear that it is actually an exploration of the … Continue reading
The Bellicose Beauty of Penthesilea at the Space
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
The Bellicose Beauty of Penthesilea at the Space
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
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
Shakespeare in the cemetery? Twelfth Night at Abney Park Cemetery
Repost: with One Stop Arts closing, I migrated this review here. In the green wilds of Abney Park Cemetery, Kelly Eva-May endowed Viola with an elegiac tenderness for Orsino, keenly expressing a desire felt all the more deeply for its denial. Alex Southern’s Orsino had a languid sensuality highlighting the capriciousness of his character’s disbelief that … Continue reading
Shakespeare in the cemetery? Twelfth Night at Abney Park Cemetery
Repost: with One Stop Arts closing, I migrated this review here. In the green wilds of Abney Park Cemetery, Kelly Eva-May endowed Viola with an elegiac tenderness for Orsino, keenly expressing a desire felt all the more deeply for its denial. Alex Southern’s Orsino had a languid sensuality highlighting the capriciousness of his character’s disbelief that … Continue reading
Connections at the National Theatre
It was a privilege to attend the closing night of Connections at the National Theatre on Monday. The first performance, “What are they Like?,” was a sweetly evocative look at the relationships between parents and children, with young actors dressed as parents recounting advice and stories about their parenting techniques. It was in turns funny, moving, frightening and touching … Continue reading
In a Merry Hour: Caitlin E McDonald 