Posted on 16 May 2013 by Ryan Sullivan
Prometheus Bound is a classic piece of theatre, part of a trilogy of plays written by Aeschylus about the eponymous Titan, Prometheus. Considering it would have been performed 2,500 years ago in huge outdoor amphitheatres, director Cieranne Kennedy-Bell has given herself a Herculean task in producing this for a modern audience in an intimate pub [...]
Posted on 07 May 2013 by Ryan Sullivan
The title of The Play That Goes Wrong is a knowing wink to the audience from a company which gets everything right. Whodunnit? Who cares when it is this funny? Charles Haversham has been found dead at his own engagement party. His estate is completely cut off by a terrible snow storm and a lone [...]
Posted on 08 February 2013 by Ryan Sullivan
Woody Allen has been many things. He is an Academy Award-winning actor, writer and director. He is one of the world’s most famous Jewish celebrities. And once he was a stand up comedian. Has he ever been a superhero created by Henry Kissinger to fight communism? You’ll have to ask the guy in the moose [...]
Posted on 03 February 2013 by Ryan Sullivan
The Cherry Orchard is a play about change. The outdated aristocracy comes under threat from the emerging middle class, and must adapt or fall victim to progress. Chekhov being Chekhov, the characters decide that their course of action will be fatal inaction. The rest is, as they say, history. The plot is really that simple. [...]