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Mesmerising monologues create filmic theatricality

(4 stars)7 Aug 2008

There are those who think Mark O'Rowe's style of writing does not constitute theatre at all. Certainly, his preference for interlinking monologues over conversational exchanges has more in common with storytelling than drama. Yet, the more his passages…

The Aluminum Show

The Aluminum Show

The secret life of metal

(4 stars)7 Aug 2008

Wonderfully inventive and gripping throughout, The Aluminum Show is a mixture of puppetry, dance, magic and general mucking about with silver stuff that has the audience gleefully cheering the newly discovered potential of lightweight metal tubing. You…

The British Ambassador's Belly Dancer

The British Ambassador's Belly Dancer

Shaking things up

(3 stars)7 Aug 2008

Belly dancing, spanking, stripping and politics are the intriguing ingredients of this rags-to-riches tale in which object of media notoriety Nadira Aleiva (who was mistress to the controversial former ambassador in Uzbekistan, Craig Murray) tells her…

The Elephant Man

(3 stars)7 Aug 2008

Mary Swan and Saul Jaffe's play confronts us with the true story of Joseph Merrick, charting his struggle from circus freak to medical marvel. Jaffe uses his physicality to manoeuvre himself around Sam Pine's inspired set, which comes complete with…

The Expert at the Card Table

The Expert at the Card Table

Biographical trickery

(4 stars)7 Aug 2008

Never play cards with Guy Hollingworth. Concentrate as you may, those hands are too darned quick. As the crafty conjurer exhibits his prodigious talent at card chicanery, he employs an affable Englishness Hugh Grant would be proud of to relay the life…

The Fooligan

The Fooligan

Tall tales by candlelight

(3 stars)7 Aug 2008

Al Seed displays an enviable gift for storytelling alongside a physical prowess to rival Max Wall in this one-man show. A vibrant series of clowning tableaux breaks up this atmospheric tale within a tale, as Seed recounts the exploits of one of the…

The Great American Trailer Park Musical

The Great American Trailer Park Musical

Snappy, sassy and show stoppin'

(3 stars)7 Aug 2008

A feisty, sun worshipin', gum chewin', all singin', all dancin' trio of girlfriends (who can't help poking their noses into other people's business) gradually divulge the scandal going on in the bosom of their beloved Florida trailer park. Nicely…

The Open Couple

(4 stars)7 Aug 2008

This re-improvised restaging of Dario Fo and Franca Rame's superb, oft overlooked 1983 two-hander is a delight. Though too young for their roles (Fo and Rame played them in their 50s), Stuart Brennan and Jennifer Dean are brilliantly convincing as the…

The Positive Hour

(4 stars)7 Aug 2008

Braindead Theatre Company performs April de Angelis' play, which explores notions of happiness in a modern world that isn't quite the fulfilling place the women's movement thought it would be. The show gradually warms up to become a moving and absorbing…

The Space Between My Head and My Body

The Space Between My Head and My Body

Sophisticated drama from a young company

(3 stars)7 Aug 2008

Seven people take a plane journey, but something has gone wrong. Has the plane landed? Is the journey still underway? Is it real or imagined? Flitting between dreams, memories, and future visions, the characters are followed by the ominous sense that…

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