Admirers of the written word take note. Duncan Macmillan’s Lungs exhibits some of the best writing I have ever had the pleasure of listening to. He takes a seemingly simple question – would you want to bring a child into this chaotic world? – and uses the lives of a young couple as the basis […]
As two actresses slyly emerge from a heap of garbage, Renata (Mina James) is pushed along by her mystic uncle named Doctor Garbage (Richard Zeppieri) on a rolling ladder denoting the exit of a plane and, subsequently, a customs booth. The apprehension and fatigue revealed in this young lady’s eyes, so vividly depicted by James, […]
In many ways Metamorphosis, based on the novel by Franz Kafka and adapted for stage by David Farr and Gísli Örn Gardarsson, is a play about denial. “We live ordinary lives” claims Lucy Samsa (Edda Arnljótsdóttir) when the employer of her son drops by demanding to know why Gregor Samsa (Björn Thors) is late for work. […]
This Clement World is part of the Carbon14: Climate is Culture Exhibition and Festival hosted by the Cape Farewell foundation and The Theatre Centre. Cynthia Hopkins is a sheer delight whom I have never had the pleasure to see on stage, and it is not surprising to learn that she is a multiple award winning […]
I am constantly in awe of the physical and mental stamina required of dancers, and have always said that if I could go back in time I would make sure to pursue dance. Well this show made me want to die immediately and be reborn a dancer. Heartbeat of Home is a spectacle with all […]
I cannot even begin to imagine what one could possibly find to say against A Brimful of Asha. So I am glad I don’t have to. It is flawless in its storytelling and staging. Ravi Jain, whose Why Not Theatre has developed a reputation in cross-cultural collaboration and producing of site-specific, as well as, community-based […]
A group of actors from Canada embark on a journey touring Michael Redhill’s play about genocide, Goodness, to Rwanda – of all places. My immediate thought is that this experience will be wrought by topics as obvious as the social function of theatre in different cultural and geographical environments. Or the role that interpretation and […]
Warning. Both this show and this review are heavily experiential. I was just thinking the other day how much I miss those long gone days of university productions that were staged professionally, but with the much-needed energy and liveliness that fresh and ambitious minds can bring to live theatre. I’ve been a bit bored lately, […]