BUNBURY IS DEAD at the Alma, Bristol
In devising Bunbury is Dead, Christopher Cutting has come up with a wonderful idea. After all, if...
Read MorePosted by Graham Wyles | 5 Jul 2014
In devising Bunbury is Dead, Christopher Cutting has come up with a wonderful idea. After all, if...
Read MorePosted by Graham Wyles | 1 Jul 2014
Artistic director at Makeshift Wings, Amy Bethan Evans, has taken it upon herself to help give a...
Read MorePosted by Graham Wyles | 27 Jun 2014
“…Simon Reade’s exquisite adaption and direction brings out the full human value of a life so carelessly squandered for ‘an example’. …Everything about this production is so achingly perfect. It is bravura storytelling and consummate acting with depth, sensitivity, emotion and a highly developed sense of moral outrage.”
Read MorePosted by Graham Wyles | 26 Jun 2014
“…The play covers a lot of ground in its one act, all of which adds to the intensity of mood we might expect with a punk theme and director, Rosie Mullin, has done a good in keeping the disparate themes from becoming a jumble…This is an engaging and ambitious play, ideally suited to the Wardrobe Theatre and will help cement the venue’s growing reputation as a place for imaginative theatre…”
Read MorePosted by Graham Wyles | 12 Jun 2014
“…Jack Dean’s monologue (or poem or play for one – take your pick) is, like Beckett’s Not I, a flow of consciousness. Using classical mythology for its structural timbers it is a lament for the fall of Icarus, for the loss of innocence, for the crushing of aspiration and a dark, frightened gaze into a slightly tongue-in-cheek dystopian future in which the UK has become something of an American supermarket…Dean has a good and expressive voice, the sine qua non of the monologist and without too much bother could turn his show into something quite memorable!
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