Caesar is a cop who wakes up with concussion. He’s been beaten up badly but remembers nothing about the altercation. In fact he remembers very little at all
Saxy foursome Compass, augmented by the very considerable talents of Marcello Maio, on piano accordion, and Julian Curwin, on electric guitar, have succeeded in capturing the spirit and soul of tango
Travesties is a play that swims around playfully in a thick pool of language. This is a pool, overflowing with comments on the nature of art, running gags, and even limericks.
Epicentre Theate Company (etc) is to be congratulated and lauded for having the temerity to take on such an ambitious project, to say nothing of pulling it off so, so competently
Descriptors such as adventurous and experimental have been used in relation to her sound which, in effect, while its roots are undeniable, is by no means traditional, but very, very contemporary and all her own.
Contradiction, conundrum, conflict, racism, misogyny and homophobia run through this play like a main circuit cable snaking through a moral minefield of explosive allegation.
Following the unedifying edict that "there's a sucker born every minute", the show skewers the modern self-improvement economy in a piss-take parody of today's 'gurus' and snake-oil salesmen.