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Crossing The Line, Cockpit Theatre
Review by Melinda Haunton I loved the idea of Crossing the Line. It could hardly be more timely to look at national borders, at the ways the divide people, and at how we value different people differently at the point where they move between two countries. We are promised a “choreography with words”, dozens of…
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The Only Thing A Great Actress Needs Is A Great Play and the Desire to Succeed, Southwark Playhouse
Review by Melinda Haunton The experience starts before you get inside the Little stage at Southwark Playhouse. Queuing punters are poured a shot of cane spirit apiece (apparently at the cast’s insistence), and invited to drink before they spectate. Cautious sips give way to pleased smiles when it turns out not to be a throat-burning…
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Dolphins and Sharks, Finborough Theatre
Melinda Haunton @melindahaunton reviews @finborough Dolphins and Sharks
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Just to Get Married, Finborough Theatre
Guest review by Melinda Haunton Walking into the tiny Finborough theatre for this revived Edwardian play is very much like stepping back in time. Music hall classics play as the audience assembles, and the pub’s own ornamental plasterwork is whitewashed back into prominence to create a genteel salon atmosphere, Tiffany lamp, piano, helplessly-pinned decorative butterflies…
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Food, Finborough Theatre
Guest review from Melinda Haunton What is Food? Steve Rodger’s play, based in a Tasmanian backwater takeaway, receives its European premiere at the Finborough Theatre, and leaves me fascinated, but also confused. Is Food a southern Gothic? There’s sufficient bitterness, sex, abuse, plotting and stifled secrets to see it as such. Its themes are plenty…
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Footprints on the Moon, Finborough Theatre
Guest post from Melinda Haunton Is it a bad sign when an award-winning Canadian play doesn’t receive its European premiere for almost 30 years? You might guess so, especially when it’s playing in rep on the unfashionable nights of the week (Sunday-Tuesday only) and on the set designed for its more favoured stage-fellow. Even the…
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