DANCING WITH THE MINOTAUR Theatre - 5th May 2008 at 15:00 (60 mins) The start of a free festival of New … [Read more...]
Does the Beeb hate the Ballet?
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 … [Read more...]
The Public
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 … [Read more...]
Hiding Leaves In Forests
I DO NOT LIKE THE DR. FELL Bernard Farrell Ulster Actors Company Belfast Civic Arts Theatre THE HIDDEN CURRICULUM … [Read more...]
The White, the Gold and the Gangrene
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 … [Read more...]
HER MAJESTY’S PURGATORY
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 … [Read more...]
Beautiful Thing
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 … [Read more...]