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The Little Match Girl Passion

The Little Match Girl Passion

Movements surplus to requirements in David Lang's fragmented, overlapping score

(3 stars)15 Nov 2011

Amid Victorian clutter – ram’s skull, case of butterflies, mangy toy dog on wheels – four comfortable-looking individuals in deconstructed versions of period dress sing the story of a barefoot lass selling matches on a freezing night. Above them, the…

Theatre adaptation highlights in store for 2010

Theatre adaptation highlights in store for 2010

Orlando, Lark Rise to Candleford and A Clockwork Orange making move from page to stage

22 Sep 2010

Orlando The latest production from Theatre Cryptic is a typically imaginative take on Virginia Woolf’s exuberant masterpiece about a young boy, born during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, who lives for centuries and transforms into a woman, going on…

Confined Human Condition

Confined Human Condition

(3 stars)23 Sep 2009

Comprising song, acting, dance and original musical scores, the two compositions that make up Confined Human Condition are both, evidently, Theatre Cryptic, but otherwise make strange bedfellows. The first, ‘Baghdad Monologue’, is an examination of…

Theatre hitlist

Theatre hitlist

3 Sep 2009

Arches Live! The Arches continues to push performance boundaries with a mouth-watering season of shows, many of them by non-traditional theatre-makers. Arches, Glasgow, Thu 17–Sat 26 Sep. The Cherry Orchard Dundee Rep ensemble turns its…

James Houston - Cryptic Nights

James Houston - Cryptic Nights

5 Feb 2009

What happens to your average art school student in the six months after they graduate? A spell travelling? A job waiting tables to finance their next project? Probably not a flurry of media attention, more job offers than they know what to do with…

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