Tuesday, August 22, 2017
There’s the germ of a decent comedy-drama in Archie Thomson’s Radio, but that’s all there is. The rest is weak, derivative, inconclusive
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Two men, one straight, one gay, sit atop stools and tell different sides of the same story. They’re both Aussies, mates who
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:57PM“The job is fucked.” The phrase rings through Adam McNamara’s four-handed Scottish police drama Stand By like a refrain. Presented as part
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:21AMUnpolished Theatre’s Flesh and Bone barges its way onto the stage and stays there, shouty, gobby and full of heart until the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:20AMLifting its title from a rehashed Edward Snowden quote, Proto-type Theatre’s A Machine They’re Secretly Building blows another whistle on governmental mass surveillance.
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Australian storyteller Wil Greenway – bright eyes, bare feet, big beard, even bigger heart – trades in spinning whimsical yarns full of charm and coincidence. They
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:56AMFormer Lyceum artistic director Mark Thomson’s Snowflake is the inaugural production from The Network, a new ensemble for emerging talent created by the
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There’s a monster inside all of us, itching to be let out. That’s the hypothesis explored in Worklight Theatre’s Monster, a new one-man show written and performed
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:25AMAs raves go, Clumsy Bodies’ revival of Caridad Svich’s phantasmagorical retelling of Iphigenia in Aulis is pretty tame. And as fables go, it’s not
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On December 12, 2015, an unidentified man was found dead on Saddleworth Moor, apparently having committed suicide with strychnine. In this solo show, writer and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:28AMThe Dreamer is Gecko’s first international co-production. Produced in collaboration with Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre, it mashes together Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:19AMThere are three parts to Thomas Eccleshare’s two-hander Heather. The first is an email exchange, read aloud by Ashley Gerlach and Charlotte
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Blending the compassionate anger of a Ken Loach film with the freewheeling ferocity of Gary Owen’s Iphigenia in Splott, writer-performer Monsay Whitney’s Box Clever presents
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Inspired by the 107,000-word manifesto of 22 year-old mass-murderer Elliot Rodger, who killed six people in a California shooting spree in 2014, Mini-Mall Theatre’s Ballistic takes
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:07AMThe John we are looking for is John Curry OBE, the figure skater who became famous as Olympic and World Champion in
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For a bit, it seems a though Echoes is going to be really cool. There’s a long, steel table. A sinister chap
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:53AMHull-based Bellow Theatre’s Bare Skin on Briny Waters is as beautiful as it sounds. Tabitha Mortiboy and Maureen Lennon’s understated two-hander slots together a pair of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:02AMGames and After Liverpool are two short, slippery plays by the rarely revived James Saunders, here given a simple, bare bones staging by Blind
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Stop: it’s hammer time. In Palmyra, Fellswoop Theatre’s follow-up to 2016’s successful Eurohouse, an audience member is entrusted with a mean-looking mallet.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:18PMOh look. It’s the inevitable Brexit musical and, inevitably, it’s about as thought through as our negotiating stance is. Chris Bryant, an EU
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Just like Silent Uproar’s A Super Happy Story, Amy Conway’s Super Awesome World tries to have a lot of fun while tackling something that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMHenry Naylor’s Borders is about two artists: Sebastian, a jobbing British photojournalist who sells out to shoot celebrities, and a daring Syrian graffiti artist who risks her
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AMYou’ve got to feel for David William Bryan’s liver. He’s doing 25 performances of Sascha Moore’s Trashed this August, and he’s getting half-cut on cans
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Tessa Bide’s A Strange New Space attempts to collide an exciting story of intrepid inter-galactic exploration with the grim realities of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:03PMNatasha Marshall’s first full-length show Half Breed bubbles with hate, bitterness and a visceral, vital defiance. An hour-long monologue, grown from the seed of spoken-word poetry…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:52PMWhy are we afraid of the dark? Why do we get lonely? Why do we wage wars? Inspired by the work of Israeli historian
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A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) is a pretty accurate title. Silent Uproar’s cabaret musical – penned by Rotterdam author
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:33PMThere’s a lot going for 2Magpies Theatre’s surreal satire on state-sanctioned torture and anti-terror tactics: a free Cuba Libre on arrival, a comfy deckchair
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:59PMAlice is dead, but is hanging around for the funeral. That’s the somewhat wonky, somewhat derivative central conceit of writer-performer Milly Thomas’ new one-woman
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You’ll need WhatsApp to fully appreciate The Believers Are But Brothers. Writer, performer and co-director Javaad Alipoor uses a live group chat, into which the audience has been
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:40AMPart science lecture, part interwoven monologue drama, part cheery, chirpy sing-a-long, Joe Sellman-Leava and Michael Woodman’s three-handed Fix – one of three Worklight Theatre…
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