Posts tagged play

An advert for The Valley – latest edition to the reality TV bandwagon – got me thinking about today’s fascination for the grotesque, both imagined …

The plot to kill and overthrow Julius Caesar took place in 44 BC. Disorder, despotic leaders and epidemic disease are things which Britain bid goodbye …

Nikolai Gogol – a contemporary of Russian literature’s other greats Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Turgenev – spawned a species of surrealist writing that would go on …

Smutty, modern and fun is Soho Cinders in a nutshell. If you love a good heart felt song, a cheeky dance move or two, and …

Another one of my idiosyncratic obsessions is Russia. My attention and interest are simply drawn there. The more I learn of it, the more I …

Lulu – directed by Shaban Arifi for Theatre Collection – has everything: incest, lesbian action, possession, exploitation, bloody murder, and even love. The delectable German …

Roald Dahl’s stories and their wild and quirky caricatures are an entrenched part of many a childhood. Despite an alleged aversion to children, the son …

Tender Napalm – a striking title that does what Philip Ridley’s work always manages to do: infuse the bliss of benign fantasy with something terrifying …

Mercury Fur, Second Serving. I seem to be making a habit of re-watching plays at the theatre of late. But how could I resist a) …

The subject may pertain to events almost 200 years old, but Shared Experience’s Mary Shelley is a thoroughly contemporary and familiar setting: philosophers decrying conformity …