To experience Cheek By Jowl’s ‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE you must immerse yourself in the excess and madness, and hold on for dear life until you are released two hours later. Exhausting and exhilarating, it grabs you by the tongue and doesn’t let go.
Read More“…The production is both tragic and humorous at the same time, the acting is splendid and the witty exchanges between characters help achieve light and shade within the performance … Phillip Arditti plays Yossarian and barely leaves the stage within an assured performance. His performance is the gel that makes the rest of the piece work, his restraint and truthfulness really uncovering the crazy world around him.”
Read MoreThe Lillies make this tableau of grotesques sizzle with two sets of blisteringly well-constructed story/songs based on Wedekind’s original words. The music has a sultry tangoesque feel to it, and we are constantly taken to new places by the ethereal swooping of the Theremin, the clacking of coconuts, or the scraping of cymbals.
Read More“… we meet Malachi and Demi on a number 11 bus as they strike an unlikely friendship, meanwhile a mother watches as her daughter fights her inner demons to leave an abusive relationship … The stand-out performance really comes from Janice McKenzie as Phyllis …There is a great deal of grit in her performance; the down to earth portrayal hits just the right spot.”
Read More… is a new play, written for the World War One centenary. The title, taken from Philip Larkin’s poem MCMXIV, evokes the prevalent frivolous feeling among young men as they signed up for war in 1914, not realising that many of them were signing their own death warrants.
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“… AS YOU LIKE IT is Rosalind’s play and Dorothea Myer-Bennett left nobody in any doubt that that was the case … her exciting, faultless performance was a tour de force, being self-assured, pushy and vulnerable all at the same time … an excellent, sophisticated production and one which I highly recommend.”
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