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Cell Mates, Hampstead Theatre
Offstage drama infamously hijacked the 1995 premiere of Simon Gray’s play, with star Stephen Fry walking out mid-run – hastening the production’s early closing. Here, then, is a chance to put the focus back on the work itself in Edward … Continue reading
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Tagged broadwayworld, cell mates, edward hall, escape, george blake, hampstead theatre, london, moscow, prison, review, russia, sean bourke, simon gray, soviet union, spy, stephen fry, wormwood scrubs
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Shakespeare Trilogy, King’s Cross Theatre
“Inmates, coming through.” That’s our introduction to Phyllida Lloyd’s landmark trilogy, as the homogenised prisoners are steered through the audience by prison officers. But this extraordinarily empathetic project, developed with Clean Break, gives those inmates individual voices and means of … Continue reading
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Tagged broadwayworld, clean break, donmar, donmar warehouse, harriet walter, henry iv, julius caesar, kings cross theatre, london, phyllida lloyd, prison, prisoner, review, shakespeare, the tempest, trilogy, west end
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BWW Interview: Leah Harvey
The actress discusses joining the all-female company of Phyllida Lloyd’s Shakespeare Trilogy. Read my full BroadwayWorld interview here
The Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco, Gate Theatre
The quest for liberation is popular dramatic terrain, but the Gate Theatre’s “Freedom Burning” season shifts focus to the aftermath. What do you do when the fight is over, and how can you be sure the sacrifice was worthwhile? It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged a human being died that night, africa, athol fugard, cave, cell, colonial, drama, fight, freedom, freedom fighter, gate theatre, history, identity, independence, jail, london, mugabe, national theatre studio, Nicholas Wright, play, prison, prisoner, review, revolution, story, the island, The Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco, theatre, war, zimbabwe
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Worthy but thin tale of broken Britain
Eighteen months on, and Ed Miliband is still intoning “Cost of living crisis” in the hope of persuading disillusioned voters that someone at Westminster understands their plight. Yet the gulf between rhetoric and experience seems ever widening, making art that … Continue reading
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Tagged arrest, changing state, child, cost of living crisis, crime, drama, drugs, ed miliband, election, ethnic minority, hen and chickens, house, housing, islington, islington gazette, local council, london, low income, millennial, north london, parent, play, politician, politics, poverty, pregnancy, prison, race, review, riots, singing, statistics, talent contest, teenager, theatre, unemployment, westminster, young, youth
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Dance grippingly explores world of social outsiders
Lloyd Newson’s DV8 company takes a big risk in fusing two opposing elements – metaphorical movement and verbatim drama – but it pays off with gripping new work JOHN. DV8, which previously tackled Islamic fundamentalism and homophobia, here confronts the harrowing life of a social outsider, the eponymous John (Hannes Langolf), … Continue reading
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Tagged addict, addiction, alcohol, choreography, contemporary, criminal, dance, dancing, drama, drink, drugs, dv8, fundamentalism, gay, homeless, homosexual, islamic, islington gazette, john, lloyd newson, london, love, movement, national theatre, north london, nt live, physical theatre, play, prison, rape, rehab, review, sauna, sex, theatre, verbatim, violence
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JOHN, National Theatre
It is no exaggeration to say that Lloyd Newson has created a new theatrical language. Verbatim drama and intricate choreography would seem, on paper, to be fatally competing elements, yet Newson’s hypnotic fusion charges both word and movement with fresh … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, addict, addiction, alcohol, choreography, contemporary, criminal, dance, dancing, drama, drugs, dv8, gay, homosexual, john, lloyd newson, london, love, movement, national, nt live, physical theatre, play, prison, rape, rehab, review, sauna, sex, the arts desk, theartsdesk, theatre, verbatim, violence
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Shock factor gone…but haunting tale is worth revisiting
Twenty years ago, Michael Billington decried the “pornographic” violence of Philip Ridley’s Ghost from a Perfect Place, archetypal in-yer-face theatre: brash, shocking, confrontational. This revival swaps Hampstead for, more appropriately, the Arcola, where its East End setting has particular resonance, … Continue reading
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Tagged arcola, charles dickens, drama, east end, east london, gang, gangster, ghost from a perfect place, gothic, horror, in yer face theatre, islington gazette, london, murder, past, philip ridley, play, prison, review, theatre
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Thought-provoking encounter with a killer
Are those who commit atrocities inhuman? It’s reassuring to put distance between ourselves and these ‘monsters’, but no such comfort in Nicholas Wright’s riveting, must-see A Human Being Died That Night at the Hampstead. Evil has a name, and a face, … Continue reading
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Tagged a human being died that night, apartheid, drama, eugene de kock, ham and high, hampstead, hampstead theatre, hannibal, killer, london, mandela, murder, Nicholas Wright, play, prison, review, silence of the lambs, south africa, theatre, truth and reconciliation commission
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