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Theatre, Issue 582

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Take That

9 Aug 2007

Faced with the prospect of Never Forget, ‘a new musical based on the songs of Take That’, you’d be forgiven for thinking ‘Mamma Mia, here we go again . . .’

5 Questions: Fiona Evans

9 Aug 2007

Fiona Evans, writer of poignant Fringe drama Scarborough, about the relationship between a 15-year-old boy and his teacher, answers our quick questionnaire

A CONVERSATION WITH EDITH HEAD

A Conversation with Edith Head

(4 stars)9 Aug 2007

Hollywood costume designer Edith Head worked on almost 500 films in her 54-year career. She dressed Mae West, Dorothy Lamour and Barbara Stanwyck in their most iconic outfits. She played with the big boys at Paramount (and later Universal) and her onyx…

A Day in Dig Nation

(3 stars)9 Aug 2007

According to Baudrillard, the apocalypse has already happened through our descent into the hyper-real, our love of convenience and inability to form human relationships, we have destroyed our civilisation, but what if this were only the beginning and…

A Glance at New York

A Glance at New York

(4 stars)9 Aug 2007

Another year, another excellent off-Broadway New York company debuts on the Fringe. Unlike their predecessors The Riot Group and T.E.A.M, however, Axis Theatre Company aren’t blazing trails with their original scripts. They’ve managed to create one of…

Auto Auto

Auto Auto

(3 stars)9 Aug 2007

Humans like doing what they know they shouldn’t: smoking, though we know it could kill us; drinking, though it makes us ill; eating the food that’s bad for us (ever got a thrill from eating a lettuce leaf?). But in real life, without running the risk of…

Believe – Linda Marlowe

(3 stars)9 Aug 2007

This series of monologues from Matthew Hurt, performed by Linda Marlowe, evokes tales from the Old Testament in order to explore the nature of faith, and how we find ways of creating it within ourselves.

Bigger than Jesus

Bigger than Jesus

(3 stars)9 Aug 2007

Structured using the catholic liturgy and with more technology than you could shake a crucifix at, Rick Miller takes us on a journey through the beginnings of Christianity. There is a lecture, a sermon, a dramatic interpretation of the crucifixion and a…

BLOOD CONFESSION

Blood Confession

(2 stars)9 Aug 2007

It’s priests versus police as these long established institutions collide when an old murder investigation is re-opened. Two priests arrive at the local police station to sign some papers and report vandalism only to find they are to be interrogated for…

CA$H IN CHRIST

Cash In Christ

(3 stars)9 Aug 2007

Leaders of the Sunrise Church, husband and wife team Bob and Fanny Comfort, take us through a sing-along sermon as they try to recruit us into a church where we can get rich in Jesus. Teachings of Sunrise include the need for women to be beautiful, the…

Change: The Upcoming War with Iran

(1 star)9 Aug 2007

Since 2001, under the watchful eye of President Bush, America has been waging its War on Terror, leaving a country in ruin and lots of radical Islamists out for revenge. So did they learn any lessons from Iraq?

CHAV! IT’S A MUSICAL INNIT

CHAV! IT’S A MUSICAL INNIT

9 Aug 2007

The Debden in which this show is set is the town of David Cameron’s nightmares. Union Jack thongs are flashed, bus stops are vandalised and groups of unemployed teens impregnate each other like Lambrini addled rabbits.

Coffee

(2 stars)9 Aug 2007

Before engaging in conversation or flirtation we make a number of assumptions about people based on the way they look, act or dress. Perhaps this is unsurprising in such an image-conscious society, but it is these assumptions that form the basis of…

Dai (Enough)

(3 stars)9 Aug 2007

As daily reports of suicide bombings in the Middle East flood into our homes, it’s impossible not to be desensitised. Figures substitute names, as personal stories take a backseat in favour of a delivery of the death toll. However, Iris Bahr’s one woman…

DAMASCUS

Damascus

(4 stars)9 Aug 2007

Routines based on the business of translation are a pretty well precedented source of humour in the theatre. What gives a rare quality to David Greig’s new play, which amounts to an entire two-and -a-half hours of this schtick, is the subtlety and…

Darkness Within

(2 stars)9 Aug 2007

A young cast of three explore the bleak existence of three stereotyped characters; the nympho prostitute, junkie rent-boy and institutionalised manic depressive. By exposing each character’s inner-monologue in various situations within their lives, they…

Dye Young/Stay Pretty

(4 stars)9 Aug 2007

Gill (Beth Medley), a pregnant Debbie Harry fan from Dudley, decides that before she can succumb to the responsibilities of motherhood, she must fly to New York and meet her idol.

ENGLAND

(4 stars)9 Aug 2007

Tim Crouch, who has built a strong reputation at the Fringe with his shows My Arm and An Oak Tree has seemed a guaranteed banker in the months since this year’s show was announced. And this piece is worth the wait. It involves Crouch and performer…

Eurobeat – Almost Eurovision

(4 stars)9 Aug 2007

Lycra, spandex, cheesy hosts, uber-innuendo and even a recorded welcome from Terry Wogan himself; it is indeed, almost Eurovision. There’s a palpable sense of excitement as badges are distributed, flags and clackers are sold and the cast do a warm up…

Exits and Entrances

(4 stars)9 Aug 2007

In Athol Fugard’s insightful new play, we find celebrated South African actor Andre Huguenet (Morlan Higgins) reflecting on all that he has sacrificed for his theatre career which is now reaching its end.

Extropia

(3 stars)9 Aug 2007

‘Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one?’ So muses Winston Smith, hero of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, and the basis for machine-operator ‘August Eight’ in The Flying Carpet Theatre’s sci-fi adventure.

Famished

(2 stars)9 Aug 2007

In this hammed-up musical, as our heroine awaits the safe return of her lover from some faraway land, singing/dancing zombies hit Victorian London.

Forgotten Voices

(4 stars)9 Aug 2007

The idea that war can be glorious has long since been purged, and yet the lessons of the past seem not to have been learned. For over ninety years now, World War One should have been used as an example of the human cost of conflict, yet wars continue…

Hippo World Guest Book

(4 stars)9 Aug 2007

The internet has indeed made the world a smaller place but arguably that little bit more bilious too. As anyone who has spent even a moment on a forum or blog will be aware, faceless interaction can often serve as a Petri dish for the most vile human…

DAMASCUS

Hitlist: Theatre

9 Aug 2007

• Damascus David Greig’s play will be the toast of the Fringe. A comedy of manners set in the city of the title, the piece involves a Scot on a business visit, and the effects of his cultural assumptions on those he encounters. See review, page 79.

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