“That was wackadoodle.” – Me, directly after seeing it. “Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich. Malkovich?” – My SO, requesting a guest blogging spot. Wackadoodle in a good way? Partly. This collaboration between theatre and music, commissioned from Michael Sturminger by the Philharmonie Hamburg is currently touring an interesting variety of locations (London, Birmingham, Groningen), as necessitated by […]
I very much admire Complicite’s work. As you will have spotted from my reviews I’m more often drawn to big names when booking cultural outings, but Complicite is a theatre company I’m more than happy to take a chance on, even when it means spending a Sunday afternoon indoors reading German surtitles. This production didn’t […]
I quite like when I come out of a play with a realisation that I need time to process it: what did it mean? Did I like it? Did I think it was any good? Nice Fish is definitely one of those plays for me, and I would add to my list of questions in […]
Waiting For Godot Let me preface this by saying I had only ever seen Beckett performed once before, and it was when I was living in Korea. It was a Chinese production. Played like traditional Chinese theatre. With surtitles in Korean and English. I left halfway through, by rationalising that the second half is […]
This was my second outing to the National Theatre in about a month, and by far my favourite of the two. Don’t get me wrong, I did enjoy The Hard Problem for the reasons outlined in my recent blog post, but Man and Superman took me so much by surprise that I found myself applauding […]
I liked this play. I felt that at times it was slightly like a soap opera, but in a good way: lots of action, interesting characters and a bit of conflict. There were a few critics who didn’t seem to enjoy it, or at least didn’t think it was Tom Stoppard’s best work, but to […]
Antigone I wanted to like this production, I really did. I generally like the innovation of the theatre the Barbican put on, as well as the fact that they stage foreign language productions, challenging plays, and other bold choices. I’ve seen Juliette Binoche before, and she always seems reasonably good. This version of Antigone, […]
Mad but brilliant. Beats you over the head with a theme but does it in style. Uses technology to satirise our addiction to technology. References German literature, Jewish folklore, Expressionist cinema of the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari vein and The Daily Mail. 1927: my new favourite theatre company. I go to a lot of theatre, […]
Unlike the Late Turner exhibition which I reviewed recently, the National Gallery didn’t create this exhibition on late works by Rembrandt from a position of reeducation or reinterpretation. The works on display are firmly within the Dutch Golden Age and have always been respected as masterful works (and quite a high number of them as […]
I think I was a little dazzled while seeing this play, not by the big name draws in their Broadway debuts, or by the direction, but, not having seen any of Tom Stoppard’s plays previously, by his way with words. While I still have nothing to compare it to, this revival of The Real Thing […]
