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Yours, Isabel

Yours, Isabel

Strong script brings together romance and female independence

(3 stars)23 Aug 2011

Set in1940s America and based on a real correspondence, this play subverts the classic war time romance of pining love letters to give an altogether more nuanced portrayal of the relationship between Isabel and her traditionally minded boyfriend Nick.

Doris Day Can F**k Off

Doris Day Can F**k Off

Musical one-man experiment

(3 stars)23 Aug 2011

The concept for Greg McLaren’s show should certainly be applauded: for a number of weeks he went round the UK communicating to people through song, taping his experience as he went. Accompanied by a sound deck, guitar and gold lame jacket, this is the…

Devotion

Devotion

Incredible performances hindered by weak story

(2 stars)23 Aug 2011

Insofar as it attempts to convey the depth of feeling engendered by the traditions and solemn ceremony of the bullfight, Devotion just about succeeds, powered by two stunningly intense performances from its male leads. However its story is too slight…

When Abel Met Cain

When Abel Met Cain

Middle Eastern music distracted by incoherant stories

(2 stars)23 Aug 2011

Raphael Rodan and Anastasis Sarakatsanos are talented musicians – between them they create a Middle-Eastern atmosphere using guitar, percussion and kanun (a Turkish stringed instrument). Rodan is also highly charismatic, telling tales of brotherhood and…

Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler

Stark and surprising modern adaptation

(3 stars)23 Aug 2011

A boldly minimal, variably acted and oddly updated adaptation of Ibsen’s great drama from the young actors of Palindrome Theatre Company of Austin, Texas. One of the Norwegian Bard’s characters will, we are told, ‘piss his pants’, another is ‘a piece of…

Unanswered, We Ride

Unanswered, We Ride

An emotional portrait of grief

(3 stars)23 Aug 2011

Joe Tippett and Martha Wollner take on multiple roles to flank Joy Barrett’s journey as bereaved mother Reese in a portrait of all-consuming, selfish grief. Despite one jarring attempt at an Irish accent, all aspects collide to create an engrossing…

Phantasmagoria

Phantasmagoria

Depressing, lazy and naïvely acted

(1 star)23 Aug 2011

This glum story about friendship betrayed aims for something moving and grown-up, but isn’t helped by performances that vary from winsome to teeth-grindingly awful (it takes more than pouting, stomping and shouting to represent a child). The lazily…

Cul-De-Sac

Cul-De-Sac

Capable garden-fence comedy

(3 stars)23 Aug 2011

Scripted by Matthew Osborn, this natty little three-hander (Alan Francis, Mike Hayley, Toby Longworth) relocates The ’burbs to Middle England. Taking the tested trope of a seeming idyll masking a sinister reality, the deviant Tony Deveraux rules the…

Silken Veils

Silken Veils

Tenderly performed memories

(3 stars)23 Aug 2011

We join a Persian woman (Leila Ghaznavi) as she freaks out about her impending nuptials. Using puppetry, silhouette-work and animation to complement live action we are taken on a journey through her memories of Iran, suffused with the poetry of Rumi. A…

Dan Canham: 30 Cecil Street

Dan Canham: 30 Cecil Street

A theatre's story told through unusual interpretation

(3 stars)23 Aug 2011

Canham tells the story of a now dilapidated theatre in Ireland through movement and actions, set to a soundtrack of voices, everyday sounds and ambient noise. An unusual piece of dance-theatre with a surprising amount of humour, even if the recorded…

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