Glyn Maxwell has written exquisitely about his project in The Guardian. I wish I’d read his article before I went. Though an opera, this once-off Oxford Playhouse production about apocalypse, climate change, consumption and extraction could conceivably have expressed its meanings less opaquely. Now I see, and am retrospectively moved by, the poignant reflections on [...]
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Glyn Maxwell & Luke Bedford’s SEVEN ANGELS, five of whom walk away from climate crisis, occupy the Oxford Playhouse for one night only, surrounded by minions from Friends of the Earth
Posted in climate justice, theatre on July 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Molly Naylor’s ‘Whenever I Get Blown Up I Think Of You’ – quick review – Oxford Playhouse
Posted in theatre on June 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I am glad I went to see ‘Whenever I Get Blown Up I Think Of You’ by Molly Naylor. Any squeamishness I had about treatments of collective national victimhood – like 7/7 – was adequately allayed by Naylor’s fantastically subtle, Generation X like spoken word about a particular overdetermined moment on the Aldgate tube in [...]
‘After Troy’ – Glyn Maxwell and Alex Clifton bring the brutalised women of Troy to the Oxford Playhouse in a fusion of two Euripidean dramas
Posted in theatre on March 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
AFTER TROY This is an incredible project – two plays, a decade or so apart, fused to provide a broader, kaleidoscopic insight into the brutalisation of the women of Troy by the ancient Greeks. After Troy was going to be ‘Sex in the Ruins’ initially, but curdled, deepened, and lost the irresponsible serving of “sex”. [...]
A Dream Play is really fucking beautiful. Strindberg – at the Oxford Playhouse – and every bit the wondrous feat a certain Griff Rees talked to me about two years ago
Posted in literature/critique, theatre on February 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In 1902, Strindberg wrote to his German translator: “Understand The Dream Play? … Everything absurd becomes probable. People flit past and a few traits are sketched in, the sketches merge … Time and space do not exist; a minute is like many years; no seasons; the snow covers the countryside in summer, the lime tree [...]
>Furcht und Ellend< in of Oxford – a student production of Brecht's scenes, translated as "Fear and Misery in the Third Reich"
Posted in theatre on February 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ben Martin and Olly Murphy’s production ‘Fear and Misery in the Third Reich’ (an original translation of ‘Furcht und Ellend’, by Murphy, and a largely original interpretation of the anti-Nazi domestic scenes, by Martin) is intense, claustrophobic, ambitious, and interesting. It doesn’t always succeed, but then, I reckon Brecht is one of the hardest and [...]
God we really Ought to Do Something: How to Question the World and Climate Change from the Perspective of London’s middle classes: “Greenland” at the National Theatre (a collaborative production – Buffini, Charman, Skinner and Thorne)
Posted in climate justice, theatre on January 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I saw the collaborative Greenland production at the Lyttelton (National Theatre) and am glad I did. For personal reasons, I badly need to see, and think about, if good theatre about climate change is possible. Or if, as the saying goes, when you mix art and politics too earnestly, you do a terrible disservice to [...]
C’était bon, “Les Bonnes” (15th-19TH JUNE, Oxford)
Posted in literature/critique, theatre on June 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Frogface production of Genet’s Les Bonnes (in translation, with odd words like thé grotesquely anglo-frenchified) is impressive. But one wants to add: “… for student drama”, which is regrettably damning. There is really nothing to damn: dramatising the cerebral Genet to a watchable standard is an incredible achievement by Gloria Lagou and her three more-than-capable actors (Franki Hackett, [...]
DREAM & NETWORK
Posted in literature/critique, theatre on June 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today, 2 theatre reviews wot I wrote: http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/reviews/feature/5050/The_Dream http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/reviews/feature/5049/Network The Dream at the Burton Taylor Studio: Fri 11th Jun & Sat 12th Jun: 9.30pm, £5 (£4). Initially I was a bit worried – Chelsea Walker had decided to pixelate and splice up the script of A Midsummer Night’s Dream – perhaps my favourite Shakespeare. But the [...]
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