Theatre
subsist
By sweetvenuescom at August 12, 2011 | 2:26 pm | 0 Comment
Edinburgh Spotlight Review What is life? What is being human? What is surviving? Where does connection come in? What are the rules? Is it hope that is needed to keep on going? Is it acceptance? What is being real? Can anyone become a completely new person? What continues on? Can mistakes be left behind or will they forever repeat or ricochet no matter what is
The Carroll Myth
By sweetvenuescom at August 12, 2011 | 2:57 pm | 0 Comment
Three Weeks Review A logician one moment and lacking any logic the next, Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, is forced to sit back and watch his imagination literally run wild, desperately endeavouring to revive the adventures of 'Alice in Wonderland'. Faced with critique for his “nonsensical” writing, and deprived of his 11 year old muse, it proves
Lost Orders
By sweetvenuescom at August 12, 2011 | 3:42 pm | 0 Comment
Three Weeks Review “Hopes, dreams, guilt and torture” – this quotation pretty much summarises the themes of these two monologues which focus on very different central characters that are experiencing remarkably similar emotions whilst drowning their sorrows with drink.
Mary Blandy’s Gallows Tree
By sweetvenuescom at August 12, 2011 | 4:00 pm | 0 Comment
What's On Stage Mary Blandy’s Gallows Tree is a gripping and dark early morning tale of a woman who was convicted of poisoning her father with arsenic. This one-woman show features real-life murderess Mary Blandy (played by Lita Doolan) recounting in her final hours the events that led her to the gallows. If you are not familiar with the tale, Mary Blandy
Wrens
By sweetvenuescom at August 12, 2011 | 4:42 pm | 0 Comment
Three Weeks Review Women of the Royal Navy have come to enjoy the freedom of independence with serving in the war has offered them. What will they do when the war is over, when they have to return to their controlled and conventional lives? Seven women share a cabin on a Navy base on Scapa; seven characters share their lives. The actors delicately and carefully
The Realm of Love or Folding Laundry
By sweetvenuescom at August 18, 2011 | 1:47 pm | 0 Comment
Theatre Guide London Review Karyn Traut's intriguing piece of theatre is probably better characterized as a staged dialectic rather than a play. The two actors, a "He" and a "She," fold laundry and discuss different approaches to living in poetic prose that floats beyond the ear quite unlike any realist dialogue that a modern theatre-goer would be accustomed to. The
M House
By sweetvenuescom at August 27, 2011 | 9:39 am | 0 Comment
EdFringe Review It was clear from the play’s very serious description that “Coliseum Arts Centre” were not about to perform a comedy. And indeed, despite moments of very black humour, the audience were not shielded in the slightest from the disturbing, upsetting and thought-provoking themes of sexual abuse and domestic violence, which pervaded their performance
Faust/us
By sweetvenuescom at August 27, 2011 | 11:16 am | 0 Comment
The Skinny Review Faustus has received countless adaptations but attempting re-tell this classic tale in a one–man show is particularly ambitious in Faust/us. This is obviously, a simplified version of the play and large number of interesting elements of the classic text are necessarily omitted in order to facilitate the style of the performance.
