Blog: Theatre vs life – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
If a play or film is based on a (famous) book, I would normally read it before going to see it. I broke my rule last week. I wanted to see The Curious Incident ...
Brecht
Review: If you don’t let us dream, we won’t let you sleep
If You Don’t Let Us Dream, We Won’t Let You Sleep depicts a government that has privatised the welfare state, with catastrophic results for its citizens. Th...
Review: Mother Courage and her Children
“War is just business”, even in the twenty-first century. As Blackeyed Theatre brings Brecht’s anti-war play forward some 400 years, it’s obvious that his chall...
Exit Stage Left: What value do clichés have in the acting world?
We’ve all had those moments of sudden self awareness in life when we realise we are acting out a genuine cliché. Whether it’s coming home from a bad day at wo...
The Wicked Stage: Book musicals vs. concept musicals – are they both under threat?
If you study musical theatre in any sort of depth you will come to realise that nearly every show falls into one of two categories: either a book musical or a...
The Wicked Stage: Can musical theatre ever be naturalistic?
One of my biggest pet peeves is how musicals are often perceived as being as far from reality as you can get in theatre, because the characters sing and dance...