Taking on Kafka is always a challenge, so anyone attempting that feat always deserves admiration. Taking on the work he never truly completed is even more of a feat, but one that Old Dog Theatre do with enough imagination that, in general, is enough to suggest that it isn’t a lost cause to be so ambitious. That imagination is prominent from the opening scene. The majority of the cast take up duties as puppeteers, walking the central character, K, through ...
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Drowning, Pleasance Courtyard (Pleasance Above) – Review
In 1991 four Austrian nurses, played by Evelyn Edwards, Andrea Helene, Aurora Henning and author Jessica Ross, were charged with the killing of 49 patients between 1983 and 1989. Although this was the number of those ascertained, it is believed that the real count might have been over 200. Their technique was simple; one nurse would restrain the patient and pinch their nose, whilst the other would pour water into their mouth until they drowned. With most of the patients ...
Read More »The Claim, Summerhall (Roundabout) – Review
Heart-breaking and suffocating
Read More »Rent, Stockwell Playhouse – Review
A punchy and fun production of a classic musical
Read More »How to Be Brave, Summerhall (Roundabout) – Review
a near-metaphorical break-neck ride through one of the most daunting challenges of parenthood
Read More »Lovecraft (Not The Sex Shop In Cardiff), Underbelly, Cowgate (Belly Button) – Review
Science meets love in a hilarious one-woman musical comedy
Read More »The Good Scout, theSpace @ Surgeons Hall – Review
Sexuality and fascism meet in a true story that doesn’t quite fly
Read More »Happy Hour, Pleasance Dome (QueenDome) – Review
Irksome but masterfully embodied by two brilliant performers.
Read More »The Incident Room, Pleasance Courtyard (Pleasance Two) – Review
An intelligent and thoroughly researched dramatization
Read More »Coma, Summerhall (The Terrace) – Review
Audience members are induced into a pretend state of coma
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