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Will Power, Theatre N16
Toby Boutall’s story of repressed male emotion is ironically stifled by its inability to speak truth to its audience.
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This Is Not Culturally Significant, Vaults Theatre
Naked Man. Naked Britain? Adam Scott-Rowley’s one man League of Extraordinary Genitals takes a stripped back view. Ed got an eye full.
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The South Afreakins, Vaults Theatre
Robyn Paterson’s one-woman show is a touching story about a pensionable South African couple with contrasting visions of the future.
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Are period dramas and BME performers incompatible?
Julian Fellowes has defended the all-white casting on Half a Sixpence by stating “It is in keeping with period”. Whilst Fellowes justification may make sense to him it sounds ridiculous to everyone else when the National Theatre have cast British-Tanzanian Lucian Msmarti as the Italian Salieri in Amadeus, full period costume and all. Fellowes later…
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Mental, Vaults Theatre
Kane Power’s one-man show looks at his mother’s bipolar disorder and the pathology of his pain. It’s an illuminating evening.
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Hip, Vaults Theatre
Jolie Booth’s one-woman show attempts to tell two stories – her own and that of a dead woman. But is either true?
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Getting involved: Immersive Theatre
I am both repulsed and fascinated by the concept of immersive theatre in equal measure. On one hand, I like traditional theatre for its passiveness. I can go alone, lose myself in the play and know other audience members are doing the same but immersive theatre doesn’t allow that, however small it is you are…
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Naomi Westerman On Sex in Theatre
It’s a warm evening in September and I am watching one of my closest friends give his wife (also a good friend) a good seeing-to over a chair. It is their first wedding anniversary. The enthusiastic audience hoots and cheers. I smile and go back to reading the ‘dogging’ section of a popular UK swingers forum.…
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Highs and Lows; theatre in 2016
This blog has only been going since April 2016 so it isn’t a comprehensive look at the hits and misses of the year. I saw 80 shows this year, across London and the South East of England. Highlights Cyprus Avenue, Royal Court Upstairs a play that should have transferred and I hope it still does.…
View from the Cheap Seat 