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31 Jan 2008
It might tell us something about the current preoccupations of the theatre in Scotland that, following a long period in which his plays were seldom performed here, revivals of David Edgar’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Nicholas Nickleby have both toured…
CLASSIC Could an 18th century play ever provide a better insight into contemporary relationships than last night’s episode of Eastenders? Director Jonathan Munby thinks so. Apparently, it’s all in the framing: in this new production for the King’s…
REVIVAL Anyone who has ever felt that the drudgery of everyday life is denying them some greater experience (that is, pretty well all of us) might feel able to relate to Peter Schaffer’s legendary international hit. Its recent London revival cast…
REVIVAL Because it’s based on recreated and imagined history, the peculiar emotion of nostalgia is something anyone, even people who weren’t there, can indulge in. Alan Plater’s World War Two-set Blonde Bombshells of 1943, originally devised by…
MODERN BALLET They say a picture tells a thousand words, and the poster for La La La Human Steps’ latest show pretty much tells you all you need to know. Standing 20ft tall, male dancer Dominic Santia is wearing a sharp black suit and pointe shoes.
MUSICAL If all the plays about Robert Burns produced over the last two decades were laid end to end, they’d surely build a bridge to Belgium, yet there’s still an appetite for such pieces at this time of year. And why not - there’s no shortage of…
NEW WORK As Sophocles once remarked: ‘Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.’ So it is in Suspect Culture’s new co-production with leading disability company Graeae, in which a woman ponders over a compilation tape left by her deceased husband…
MODERN CLASSIC The astonishing achievement of Brian Friel’s 1980 reflection upon colonialism and its consequences, here produced with some style by Andy Arnold’s Arches company, is the subtlety with which it springs its trap. From a quiet beginning…
MODERN CLASSIC Taking on arguably the greatest play of the 20th century is no mean feat, particularly given that, in Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece, the surface simplicity is a mere cheeky masquerade for the complexities that lie within. So, is…
ADAPTATION In 1845, the American writer and philosopher Henry Thoreau, horrified by what he perceived as materialist consumerists’ destruction of and distance from nature, was driven to relocate to a hut in the woods with a mere 27 possessions, the…
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31 Jan 2008
31 Jan 2008
