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Review: Tatyana
Having seen the Royal Ballet’s stunning take on John Cranko’s Onegin the night before at the ROH, I was struggling to imagine how the Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker would compare with the beauty...
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You know you’re in for an interesting evening when you’re issued with an adapted bin bag on entry. And when you note that the floor has been changed into what looks a bit like a large paddling pool....
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Review: Feast
Feast is a work of ambitious scope, taking on the familiar story of African enslavement and subsequent dispersion throughout the Atlantic world. It’s harrowing subject matter, as is made clear in the...
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Review: The Deep Space
This new play by Lila Whelan grew out of a short news item to become a deeply moving, often shocking examination of the human causes of a house fire which killed two young children and their father....
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Review: Radha is Looking Good/The Clock
The first half of this double bill by the Hide and Seek Theatre company attempts to take us into the world of 24-year-old Radha, a girl with severe autism. The piece is performed by Chandni Mistry who...
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Review: The Cafe
The Café is a site-specific performance, performed in the Coffee Works Project in Angel, which tells the all-too familiar story of austerity through a day in the life of a struggling café and its...
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Review: Fallen in Love: The Secret Heart of Anne Boleyn
The moody overcast sky and the anniversary of the execution of George Boleyn in 1536 seemed fittingly portentous for the opening night of Fallen in Love in the Tower of London. The Suffolk-based Red...
View ArticleReview Overview: PULSE Festival
It may be small in scale and a little obscure, but the ten-day PULSE Festival at Ipswich’s New Wolsey Theatre has a rich, eclectic range of shows which bring its loyal, almost cult-like audiences back...
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PULSE Festival Review: Mess
Can eating disorders ever be funny? Surely we’ve all been in situations so awful that the only response we can make is to laugh. This is the method Caroline Horton uses in Mess to tackle anorexia,...
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PULSE Festival Review: My Heart is Hitchhiking Down Peachtree Street
Have you ever been to the state of Georgia? I certainly hadn’t before I met J. Fergus Evans, but during his intimate performance at the PULSE Festival I could swear I was there, being taken around by a...
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