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Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again., Shoreditch Town Hall
I hope there’s a time when we don’t feel that Alice Birch’s bold, blackly funny, uncompromising battle cry of a play is a necessary intervention. A time when we’re not reeling from – among many others – sexist Olympics commentary, … Continue reading
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Tagged alice birch, broadwayworld, emma fielding, erica whyman, feminism, feminist, gender, girl, inequality, porn, rape, review, revolt she said revolt again, rsc, sexism, shoreditch town hall, woman, women
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We Want You To Watch, National Theatre
“We’re completely pro sex.” Rashdash, who collaborated with Alice Birch on this anarchic challenge to pornography, are not objecting on prudish grounds – their concern is the corrosive impact of degrading, dehumanising material. We are all affected, and we all need … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged alice birch, Beyoncé, dance, dancing, death, drama, elizabeth ii, feminism, feminist, gender, hardcore, her majesty, internet, kill, london, love, male gaze, movement, murder, national theatre, online, play, porn, pornography, rape, rapist, rashdash, review, sex, the arts desk, the queen, theartsdesk, theatre, torture, video, violence, violent, women
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Little Light, Orange Tree Theatre
The Orange Tree’s renaissance continues with this searing piece from playwright of the moment Alice Birch, who will shortly follow up last year’s subversive Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again with an interrogation of the porn industry for Rufus Norris’s debut … Continue reading
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Tagged alice birch, baby, blame, child, comedy, death, die, domestic, drama, family, grief, guilt, horror, little light, london, loss, memory, missing, national theatre, nostalgia, orange tree, parent, play, porn, pregnant, remember, review, richmond, rufus norris, sibling, sister, the arts desk, theartsdesk, theatre
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Mostly build-up…debatable climax
“How long do you intend to draw this out?” So enquires German philosopher Adorno of his student-turned-extorter, who claims to possess the material influential academic Walter Benjamin smuggled out of Nazi-occupied Paris shortly before his death. Yet the question could … Continue reading
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Tagged adorno, carl djerassi, foreplay, german, germany, hannah Arendt, islington, islington gazette, kings head theatre, london, nazi, north london, philosophy, porn, pub, review, science, the pill, theatre, walter benjamin, war
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