12 stories by "Andres Ordorica"
There are few plays that sit in the genre of gay dramatic literature and stand out as unarguably necessary and canonical, surpassing their temporality and remaining an evocative and meaningf…
‪Holy Warriors, a new play by David Eldridge, is billed as “a fantasia on the Third Crusade and the history of violent struggle in the Holy Lands” " like other plays of suc…
It is always somewhat controversial when a production takes a classical, and daresay canonical, piece of drama and alters the text significantly. Countless classical stage plays are updated,…
Unhinged, uncomfortable, unbridled are all fitting descriptions of Pamela and Sharlene's Tack-On Tours Presents the Ugliest Buildings in London, but to simply leave it at that would negate t…
Dream of Perfect Sleep (a new play by Kevin Kautzman) is an imaginative study on how adult children deal with death and the imminent loss of aging loved ones. Director Max Pappenheim takes t…
This Is How We Die is an explosion of epic poetry that tackles the absurd nature of life and the human desire to compartmentalise the self, the other and humanity. A one-man performance piec…
Johnny Got His Gun (directed by David Mercatili) revolves around the story of Joe Bonham, a young twenty-something American from Colorado. He enlists in the U.S. Army to serve in World War I…
A life-size advertisement sits as the backdrop to a completely bare stage. In big black lettering it reads: ‘COMING SOON’. These words are there to whet the audience's appetite a…
A Human Being Died That Night, currently playing at the Hampstead Theatre Downstairs is theatre, truly, at its most sublime and gut-wrenching. Nicholas Wright’s play comprises two char…
As soon as the lights give way at the Finborough Theatre, the audience is transported to a bleak country. A beautifully minimal set, painted in greys and charcoal evoke the hardship of Ulste…
I have never been to a press night with such hoardes of paparazzi as those waiting outside the theatre when I saw the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Julius Caesar. Yet, far from being ove…
I was in awe as I walked into the Roundhouse in Camden. Having attended shows in Stratford-Upon-Avon previously, I felt immediately as if I was in that beautiful provincial town viewing a pl…
