Pros: This is a well-constructed production, at times charming, at times heart-breaking. Cons: Both acting and story become increasingly repetitive, interfering with the play’s ability to be at all memorable. We are in a flat in Belsize Park in 1991. Books, art prints, classical sheet music, old-fashioned furniture and other bric-a-brac are scattered about, whilst Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor Opus 25 plays. Otto Huberman, a dotty old man who is obviously the flat’s sole inhabitant, listens ...
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Doctor Faustus, Chickenshed – Review
A refreshing take on a very old tragedy.
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Well worth watching for the performances of Barnes and Perry, and for its smacker of an ending.
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This funny, moving and powerful production is effortless in its execution.
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Pros: A hilarious, touching, emotional ride through contemporary social and sexual mores Cons: None A bare, carpeted stage with a circular bed dead centre. As the lights go up, a couple are having energetic, enthusiastic sex beneath a pink satin eiderdown. All we can see of him are his lower legs, his underpants dangling from an ankle; all we can see of her as she sits astride him is the giant mouse costume that covers her from head to foot. ...
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An intellectually curious show stumbles over its own cleverness, but is mesmerising nonetheless.
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A joyous, colourful and exuberant 60s ‘happening’. You will be humming the music to yourself for some time afterwards.
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A truly captivating and powerful new work that explores the plight of the capital’s homeless.
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