Thursday, November 28, 2019
The best pop culture depictions of the Eighties are poised on a knife edge: bright colours! Big hair! Definitive pop! But also
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There’s something brilliant about sanctioned playtime – dress up, get a fake name, pretend you’re on a life or death mission, play
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How do you recreate the blood-stirring heat of Baz Luhrmann’s Verona Beach in a remote corner of London? Secret Cinema succeeds despite
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A new all-female musical based on true historical accounts of rival female street gangs is an exciting prospect. Delivered as music hall
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In Denise Deegan’s boarding school favourite, scholarship student Daisy embarks on her first year at Grangewood, beset on all sides by snobbish
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Shock and outrage has dominated my Twitter feed of late, following exposure of sexual harassment in the theatre industry. Scratch the surface,
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Hwaet do you get when you cross Anglo Saxon epic with heavy metal? Chris Thorpe’s Beowulf. Narrated by a fearsome Debbie Korley
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Erin Markey’s Boner Killer – part of the Fierce at the Yard showcase – is ostensibly a cabaret act. Markey plays and
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Ian Dixon Potter’s The Test tells the story of Dora (Natasha Killam), a computer scientist who succeeds in creating an entirely new Turing Test-passing
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Philip Correia’s warm-hearted, rough-handed debut play Hyem (yem, hjem, home) looks inside the home of Sylv and Mick, eccentric inhabitants of Northumberland’s
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Enda Walsh’s Disco Pigs, his 1997 portrait of co-dependent teenagers Runt and Pig, is a tricky machine-gun mix of dialect and secret
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The Donmar Warehouse’s film of their all-female Julius Caesar is a labour of love. Directed by Phyllida Lloyd, it’s definitely a filmed
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Performed in the imposing remains of a gothic chapel, Brave New Worlds’ Trinity is arrestingly weird. Creators and performers Guoda Jaruseviciute, Valentina
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Dutch children’s theatre company Theatre Artemis specialise in questioning authority. In The Man Who Knows It All this is done through a
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Like most 17th century revenge tragedies, James Shirley’s The Cardinal is a gratifyingly dark farce: masques, wars, poisonings, and illicit love abound
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Dirty Market repurposes found things. In its stage production of Leonora Carrington’s 1976 novel, rags and string, twigs and cardboard are given
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There have been some inspired examples of gender-switched casting recently. But this all-female version of Laura Wade’s 2010 play Posh, exploring the
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Marlowe’s world-conquering shepherd Tamburlaine loves rolling the names of places round his mouth: Persepolis, Scythia, Aleppo, Damascus. This relish is palpable in
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At the heart of this adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner’s graphic novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl is an extraordinary performance from
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20 Stories High’s verbatim play I Told My Mum I Was Going on an RE Trip approaches the subject of abortion with
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The Hunting Lodge is a curious beast. Ignace Cornelissen spins a fairytale for teens and pre-teens, albeit one where Cinders has vanished
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“I’m the only woman in the show,” whispers Hannah Ringham’s voice wryly, “but I’m in charge.” Dancing Bear, Dancing Bear offers an
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Tony Harrison’s 1988 play The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus takes fragments of a lost satyr play by Sophocles and spins them into an
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“It’s time for a star who looks just like you,” go the lyrics of Hairspray, the musical based on the John Waters’
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