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Comedy and comics
Next Time I’ll Sing To You
Next Time I’ll Sing To You Genre: Comedy Drama Venue: Orange Tree Theatre, 1 Clarence Street, Richmond, Surrey, ...
The Elizabethans & Jacobians
Don Carlos
Genre: Drama Venue: Blue Elephant Theatre, 59a Bethwin Rd, Camberwell, SE5 0XT Low Down Lazarus Theatre’s ...
Theatre Festival
Blind Date & 27 Wagons Full Of Cotton
Does advertising a play as “rarely performed” excite you or raise your suspicions about the play’s entertainment value? I have to say that for me the latter is sometimes true. I’m likely to respond more positively if the play is the work of a respected playwright, either an early or ‘forgotten’ work for example. For this reason, I applaud Make&Bake Production’s choice of Blind Date by Horton Foote & 27 Wagons Full Of Cotton by Tennessee Williams, though Williams is certainly better known that the Pulitzer and Oscar Award winning Foote. Nonetheless, perhaps the full-house I was part of in Studio 3 at Riverside Studios on Friday night indicates how the London fringe is key to widening an audience’s experience of the works of respected dramatists.
Into Shakespeare
The Taming Of The Shrew
As Shakespeare’s comedy The Taming Of The Shrews highlights, the history of gender politics goes further into the past than the history of suffragettes and equal rights. The idea of a ‘shrew’ is steeped in a mythological ancestry in which furies of one kind or another, once provoked, go on their destructive rampage. Arguably, what Shakespeare shows us in Katherine is the shrew in modern terms, when economic power forms a decisive part of ‘love and marriage’ and aggression has feminine as well as male characteristics.
Theatre Festival
My Hometown is in my Shoes/ The Other
The ground is seen as a surface from where all things originate. Movements sprout from the soil as a force of resistance in the face of disappearance. The work reconsiders the shoe beyond its practical function where the object can adopt different meanings.
Musical Theatre
Bound
Bound Genre: Drama Venue: The Vault, Southwark Playhouse, Shipwright Yard, (Corner of Tooley St. & Bermondsey St.), London, SE1 2TF ...
Into Shakespeare
Shiver
Before the theatre is found and a word is spoken for Shiver, the drama has already begun. Getting to the Yard Theatre to watch Theatre6’s rearrangementof Shakespeare’s Tempest is a drama. The theatre is tucked into an industrial factory site at E9 5EN....The stage setting that you encounter of a lagoon – that’s right you read it correctly – a wet and shimmering lagoon on which two ‘islands’ are placed: one created with wooden pellets on which sits an older man and the other rising out of the water (created with scaffolding) like an oil rig platform on which a young woman is stretched out.
Theatre of Realism
Of Mice And Men
Of Mice And Men Genre: Drama Venue: The Brockley Jack Studio Theatre 410 Brockley Road Brockley London SE4 2DH ...
Theatre Festival
J’ai Deux Amours: The Josephine Baker Story
Cush Jumbo received a standing ovation from many members of the audience at the Etcetera Theatre on the opening night of her one-woman show J’ai Deux Amours: The Josephine Baker Story. There were many good reasons I could see for this: her great singing voice, her versatility in taking on different characters while telling Josephine Baker’s biography and, above all, her engaging energy.
Comedy and comics
Constance
Constance Genre: Comedy Drama Venue: King’s Head Theatre 115 Upper St Islington LONDON N1 1QN Low Down ...
