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The Terrible Infants

Edible dark fairytales

(4 stars)21 Aug 2008

There are no happy endings in this collection of delectably dark fairytales: cannibal boy Tumb eats his mum, the unloved Thingummyboy evaporates and fibber Tilly grows a tail that lengthens with every tall tale she delivers. Writer Oliver Lansley’s…

The Censor

(3 stars)21 Aug 2008

Hands flicking towards each other's groins, two actors circle one another in the basement office of the film censorship board. Prudishness and sexuality are explored in Anthony Neilson's electrifying text. Unfortunately, the dynamics of the central…

66a Church Road

(3 stars)21 Aug 2008

Sitting amid an array of suitcases as if he has been thrown out onto the street, Daniel Kitson creates a tragicomic riff on his old flat. At first the imaginative conceit successfully taps into the sentimentality people invest in their homes, but the…

Medusa’s Snakes: The Aftermath

(2 stars)14 Aug 2008

Posing the question of what happened to Medusa’s snakes after her death, this play introduces us to Monstrous and Sinclair who, rooted to the decapitated head, plot how to take vengeance for their ‘lady’. The inventive costumes and set cannot compensate…

You Don’t Need to Know That

(3 stars)14 Aug 2008

Gonzo Moose presents a farce based on Hitchcock’s North By Northwest, in which an innocent man is accused of an unknown crime. Some exceptional spoof thriller moments arise from the metallic filing cabinets that comprise the set even if, overall, the…

Beyonce – Stop Punching Robbie!

Re-establishes the comic potential of the dramatic monologue

(4 stars)14 Aug 2008

Being a nursery teacher in Tower Hamlets is no picnic, especially when you have a divorce and the under-fives numeracy skills development programme to contend with. Cecilia Delatori re-establishes the comic potential of the dramatic monologue with…

Diary of a Nobody

(2 stars)7 Aug 2008

The minutiae of life in Victorian suburbia is the subject of this gentle social satire, but the script does not maximise its wry potential and constant costumes changes slow up the action.

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