Hits: 5526 Children's rhymes, when sung at just the right
tempo, with just the right lilting, listless tone, have a tendency to become
slightly unnerving Created: 26 July 2007 |
Hits: 4267 sacredCOW's The Quivering is an intelligent and, against all odds, often hilarious rumination on death and the act of dying. Created: 17 July 2007 |
Hits: 7741 This is a beautifully written piece, the language segueing marvellously from
ferocity to lyricism with the occasional detour through middle-class twaddle
thrown in for good measure. Created: 05 July 2007 |
Hits: 4915 Wild East is a play that doesn't quite know what it wants to be:
a nuanced comedy about corporate culture, a chamber drama about
personal betrayal, or a riotous, slapdash cartoon. Created: 04 June 2007 |
Hits: 5432 In more sense than
one, Hélène Cixous’ The Perjured
City
Or, The Awakening of the Furies has history pulsing through its veins. Created: 02 June 2007 |
Hits: 6383 Alice, a former actor-turned-care worker, and Tom, who's still acting despite himself, are in a
convenient but complacent relationship, not so much in love as in limbo. Created: 28 May 2007 |
Hits: 5866 Checklist for an Armed Robber
remains an ambitious and compelling piece. Its shortcomings, while not
negligible, are considerably fewer than its strengths. Created: 21 May 2007 |
Hits: 8537 Blessed with good humour, a magnificent score, and a leading lady to write home to
mother about, the production never really displeases – even when it’s difficult
to hear – and is, more often than not, almost helplessly endearing. Created: 19 April 2007 |
Hits: 4074 Played for progressively darker
comic effect until the comedy is so black that it’s no longer funny, the guards
are nasty pieces of work, lewd, vindictive and increasingly violent. Created: 10 April 2007 |
Hits: 4903 With its spectral bodies and sea of words, all floating about in the
chiaroscuro of memory, Anna Tregloan's Black is a difficult work
to categorise. Created: 28 March 2007 |
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