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Magnetic North's Wild Life explores idea of modern day feral child

Magnetic North's Wild Life explores idea of modern day feral child

Playwright Pamela Carter's play inspired by ‘Wild Boy of Aveyron’

24 Feb 2011

From travelling freak shows to Channel 4’s sensationalistic Bodyshock series, voyeurism has long been a part of human nature, and the internet has only increased the opportunities for pointing and staring at those who stand out somehow from what our…

An Argument About Sex

An Argument About Sex

An audacious conceit that lacks thematic focus

(2 stars)5 Oct 2009

This site-specific production springs from an audacious conceit: an updating of 18th century playwright Pierre de Marivaux’s comedy La Dispute, framed within a topical argument. Was the severity of the economic downturn down to inherently male…

What We Know

What We Know

10 Feb 2010

One of the changes at the Traverse since Dominic Hill’s appointment as artistic director is the theatre’s determination to mount a wide range of small scale work in its studio theatre. The success of David Greig’s Midsummer over the last year bears out…

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Pamela Carter's theatrical exploration of how gender affects behaviour

17 Sep 2009

A few months back, an outburst from acting Prime Minister Harriet Harman, blaming our current recession upon testosterone-fuelled male traders, reopened an old debate about gender and human behaviour. By coincidence, at the same time, preparations were…

Game Theory

Game Theory

(2 stars)23 Aug 2007

At the end of a war with some resemblance to the Yugoslavian conflict, a succession of scenarios unfolds. Three government officials negotiate fruitlessly over responsibility and territory, a woman returns to her abandoned, vandalised home with her two…

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