The Real Thing is a play written by Tom Stoppard; an intellectual genius and one who, unfortunately, seems to have difficulties writing about love and marriage. We see the device of a play-within-a-play...
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From the instant the auditorium blacks out and the rolling and swelling overture begins, to the final moments of Senta, rejected, sacrificing herself to redeem the cursed Dutchman, Ed Gardner keeps...
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"Please take your seats and prepare for take-off" we were told upon arrival, greeted at the door by a sweet young boy dressed in typical air steward get-up. This was the first character we...
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The title conjures some childhood memories. Angelin Preljocaj’s interpretation of the Grimm Brothers’ 1812 fairy tale is an adult take. In Prelijocaj’s words, it is about a psychological...
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Originally a radio drama broadcast on the BBC in 2000, Chair takes itself and its 2077 setting to the Lyric Studio directed by the playwright himself. The plays arrival is marked with Alice (Tanya Moodie)...
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..it really is funny, gripping, and poignant too: a triumph for writer Charles Dyer, 84 and still going strong. Granted, not a lot happens, plotwise, in this play, but that's not the point – and besides, with characters as complex, credible and compelli
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Ron Rose’s The Queen of the North aims to draw the audience into a dynamic akin to that of sitting down for a brew with the legendary Pat Phoenix and hearing her recount her turbulent life story....
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David Harrower’s latest play, A Slow Air, enjoyed success in Glasgow and Edinburgh before transferring to the United States. It now returns to the Tricycle in Kilburn, a small theatre that is...
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Macbeth is characterised by gross violence that rivals Titus Andronicus. The main protagonist in the quest for power kills indiscriminately: his king, friends, their families, women and children. All...
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It is, thankfully, not raining through Nasir Uddin Yousuf’s The Tempest (translated into Bangla by Rubayet Chowdhury Ahmed, who also plays Gonzalo) on the 8th of May. Some productions are so entrancing...
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