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Super Duper Close Up, The Yard – Review
Pros: Engaging, smart and surprising, Jess Latowicki carries you with her deeper and deeper. SDCU takes on baffling cultural matters with an engaging directness. Cons: Too baggy particularly around the end and could benefit from pruning, sharpening and general revision. The dance? Fun, but too long. Jess Latowicki performs Made in China’s new show on a set made up of an over-fluffy carpet, a calming waterfall backdrop, and, we are soon to discover, a camera providing us with a live-stream of the performance, ...
Read More »Buggy Baby, The Yard Theatre – Review
Oscillating between comedy and terror, this unsettling play struggles to find its identity.
Read More »This Beautiful Future, The Yard Theatre – Review
Pros: An interesting view on love and war Cons: Some questionable karaoke that might not be to everyone’s taste It is 1944 in occupied France. Two teenagers exchange laughter and kisses and find love in spite of war. The story follows Elodie (Hannah Millward) and Otto (Bradley Hall) an unlikely but electric pairing; Elodie is a whimsical and playful French girl, while Otto is a German solider regimented, and brainwashed by Hilter’s rhetoric. The two find comfort and joy in each other’s company while ...
Read More »Big Guns, The Yard Theatre – Review
A pioneering piece of theatre with a provocative script that promises maybe a little too much.
Read More »Brenda, The Yard Theatre – Review
Mental health and poverty are the cause of this couple’s breakdown. A conceptually interesting play, but slightly underdeveloped and not as powerful as it could be.
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