Theatre Review

  DANCING WITH THE MINOTAUR Theatre – 5th May 2008 at 15:00 (60 mins)     The start of a free festival of New Irish Writing on every weekend during the Festival in The George at 3pm. Dancing With The Minotaur’ by Max Hafler (Galway) is a gripping tale of a man and a woman trapped in a confused marriage where the … (click to read more)  ... [more>

The question should really be ‘does the telly’ ‘ or at least, the people who run telly ‘ ‘hate ballet?’ Christmas Day 2007 showed a ‘feast’ of classical ballet. One ‘course’ started on BBC1 with a prog entitled The Magic of Romeo and Juliet, 3.55pm followed half an hour later by Romeo and... [more>

Frederico Garcia Lorca Theatre Royal, Stratford East The above was claimed to be about homosexuality, especially homosexuality in a sexually and socially repressed society. This may be what led the director of the piece to urge on his cast what was basically a great deal of camping about by many players. At one point an Emperor-figure one part... [more>

I DO NOT LIKE THE DR. FELL Bernard Farrell Ulster Actors Company Belfast Civic Arts Theatre THE HIDDEN CURRICULUM Graham Reid Lyric Players ... [more>

Writer: Terry Eagleton Dubbeljoint Theatre Company Old Museum Arts Centre THIS oddly named play is about James Connolly’s last few hours in the condemned cell. The greater part of the talk: – there is very little action other than Connolly (Tim Loane) hobbling about the cell or being forced to crawl about it by two warders. These... [more>

StoneCrabs Theatre (www.stonecrabs.co.uk) presented Basic, by Lynn Greenwood, a psychotherapist formerly in Wormwood Scrubs prison (west London). The poster, and other publicity material, for this play showed two very attractive, shirtless, young men. It probably attracted a fair number of young (and not so young) women, and the odd Gay man to Hackney... [more>

The play’s title is everything you could and would say, Jonathan Harvey has summed up the hopes of teenagers in a working class situation in inner London. No one seeing the play could come away without the realisation that young Gay people have the same needSeand aspirations as everyone else – love (both spiritual and physical), a sense... [more>