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Things I Know To Be True, Lyric Hammersmith

Posted on September 17, 2016 by mkmswain

Growing up is a kind of grief: losing the person you once were to embrace the person you will become. That loss can fracture familial relationships, forced to adjust and reform as offspring alter, challenge, question and move away – … Continue reading →

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BWW Interview: Scott Graham and Geordie Brookman

Posted on September 12, 2016 by mkmswain

Andrew Bovell’s Things I Know To Be True, a Frantic Assembly and State Theatre Company of South Australia co-production, opened earlier this year in Adelaide and is now playing at London’s Lyric Hammersmith, led by Imogen Stubbs. Scott Graham, co-founder … Continue reading →

Posted in Dance, Journalism, Theatre | Tagged adelaide, andrew bovell, australia, broadwayworld, child, family, frantic assembly, generations, geordie brookman, interview, lyric hammersmith, parent, physical theatre, scott graham, state theatre company, things i know to be true | Leave a comment

Ten great plays within plays

Posted on August 26, 2015 by mkmswain

To coincide with the opening of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good at the National Theatre, here are 10 great examples of the play-within-a-play, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy to groundbreaking work from Stoppard, Pirandello, Weiss and Brecht. Read my full National Theatre article here

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Pick of the Week

Posted on August 13, 2015 by mkmswain

Bridget Christie and flamenco in Edinburgh, family-friendly Green Man Festival and will The Man From U.N.C.L.E will be a Cold War hit, or just lukewarm? Read my full theartsdesk newsletter here

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A poignant take on a post-apocalytic world

Posted on June 12, 2015 by mkmswain

The Sydney Theatre Company team had an appropriately Beckettian experience while mounting this new production: the first few weeks of rehearsal were spent waiting for a director who never appeared. Company director Andrew Upton eventually took over from absent Tamás … Continue reading →

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Waiting for Godot, Barbican

Posted on June 7, 2015 by mkmswain

In a peculiarly Beckettian development, the creative team of this Sydney Theatre Company production spent several weeks of rehearsal waiting not for Godot, but for their director. Tamás Ascher – who spotted the casting potential of Uncle Vanya co-stars Hugo … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: australia

Things I Know To Be True, Lyric Hammersmith

BWW Interview: Scott Graham and Geordie Brookman

Ten great plays within plays

A poignant take on a post-apocalytic world

Waiting for Godot, Barbican

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