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Much Ado About Nothing - 25 & 26 April, St Mary’s Quad, St Andrews

Much Ado About Nothing - 25 & 26 April, St Mary’s Quad, St Andrews

(3 stars)27 Apr 2009

Directors Sam Fowles and Alice Jones promised an ‘original’ Much Ado. ‘While we would never dare to look outside such a wonderful script for inspiration,’ they explained, ‘we basically took this as something of a carte blanche to experiment.’ The…

Blood Wedding - Byre Theatre, St Andrews, 22 Apr 2009

Blood Wedding - Byre Theatre, St Andrews, 22 Apr 2009

(3 stars)27 Apr 2009

It is, perhaps, slightly ironic that Federico Garcia Lorca’s renowned tragedy, Blood Wedding, was performed in the sleepy, traditional town of St. Andrews, for the play is a vivid portrayal of the restrictions of conventional societies, as well as a…

The History Boys - Byre Theatre, St Andrews, Wed 22 Apr

The History Boys - Byre Theatre, St Andrews, Wed 22 Apr

(4 stars)24 Apr 2009

Incompetent Productions On The Rocks arts festival It's sometime in the ‘80s, somewhere in the North, in an underperforming all-boys secondary school. The unremarkable nature of this setting is there in the set’s drab schoolroom furniture, in the…

Hamlet - Byre Theatre, St Andrews, 23rd & 24th April

Hamlet - Byre Theatre, St Andrews, 23rd & 24th April

(4 stars)24 Apr 2009

Two-Day Productions in association with Mermaids and the Antony Tudor Fund On The Rocks arts festival Though a good Hamlet does not always a good Hamlet make, a bad Hamlet does (every time) do the opposite. Fortunately, Jamie Wightman, who played…

Noumena: A Journey Through Plato’s Realm of Forms, Byre Theatre, St Andrews - Tue 21 Apr

Noumena: A Journey Through Plato’s Realm of Forms, Byre Theatre, St Andrews

(4 stars)23 Apr 2009

Noumenon, the programme explains, is ‘The thing-in-itself as opposed to the phenomenon- the thing as it appears to an observer.’ In an ‘introductory comment’ prior to the performance, Prof. Sarah Brodie of the School of Philosophy at University of St…

Jerry Springer the Opera - On the Rocks, St Andrews

Jerry Springer: The Opera - On the Rocks, St Andrews

23 Apr 2009

And so it began - amid protests and slander - as Jerry Springer the Opera hit St Andrews to unprecedented publicity. Curiosity drove people in record numbers to the Students' Union to see for themselves what the debacle was all about. Since the…

Theatre Odyssey - Aristophanes' The Frogs - Tue 21 Apr

Theatre Odyssey - Aristophanes' The Frogs - Tue 21 Apr

(2 stars)22 Apr 2009

Aristophanes’ The Frogs Theatre Odyssey On The Rocks arts festival, St Andrews The first half of Theatre Odyssey’s take on Aristophanes’ The Frogs, an offering from the new On The Rocks arts festival in St Andrews, felt like the most painful kind…

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