BANKSY: THE ROOM IN THE ELEPHANT Tobacco Factory, Bristol
Tachowa Covington likes to live his life outside the normal rules of engagement. It’s not everyone...
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OUR COUNTRY’S GOOD at Bristol Old Vic
“Timberlake Wertenbaker’s play, based on Thomas Keneally’s, Playmaker, is a work that for the most part preaches to the converted (theatre-goer), having at its core the idea that literature and theatre in particular, can be a humanizing and civilizing medium … What the play does well is to bring these ideas to the stage without being reduced to clunkingly dull set pieces of polemic. The characters are all vivid and well drawn by the strong, gender and colour-blind casting.”
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IRVING BERLIN SONGBOOK Everyman Studio, Cheltenham
Backstage shows rarely fail so it was clever to set the show in this environment complete with ropes, costumes, fire extinguisher and other backstage paraphernalia ….. Paul Milton skillfully managed to weave a coherent story line, taking us through the half-hour before the curtain goes up on a show and the opening sequence after it does.
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INCOGNITO at the North Wall, Oxford
“What is the brain? It is a bundle of memories, shaping the centre of who we are as individuals? Is it there to create an illusion that there’s a constant ‘us’ as we lurch from random moment to random moment? Can you find genius inside it if you slice it thinly enough? ….A fantastic piece of emotionally powerful theatre that will keep you thinking for a long time afterwards, Incognito is well worth seeing. Probably twice, in case you miss anything the first time…”
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BRISTOL OLD VIC THEATRE SCHOOL – Directors’ Cuts Season
presented by the four graduating directors and features work by current acting and production students. The season concludes with DUTCHMAN by LeRoi Jones, a tale of seduction aboard the New York subway. There are two characters: Lula, a young white woman, and Clay, a black middle-class man…she comes aboard, eating an apple. He seems quiet and bookish, but she is sexy and provocative, embarrassingly forthright in her apparent desire to seduce her quiet, respectable fellow passenger.
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HETTY FEATHER at the Everyman, Cheltenham
“…is a beautifully staged show. The set is like a circus ring with ropes, drapes, ladders and trapezes. It is these that enable Hetty to experience her young world, to climb trees and ride horses when she is fostered out to a farm before being returned, at the age of six, to a life behind locked doors…”
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