[etc.] Klątwa – Teatr Powszechny, Warsaw Hamlet – Almeida, Islington Bekannte Gefühle, Gemischte Gesichter – Volksbühne, Berlin This Beautiful Future – The Yard, Hackney Five Easy Pieces – Theatertreffen selection at Sophiensæle, Berlin 89/90 – Theatertreffen at Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin Persuasion – Royal Exchange, Manchester Returning to Reims – HOME, Manchester Palmyra – Summerhall, Edinburgh Lokis – National Drama Theatre, Vilnius Victory Condition – Royal Court, London Also, if opera counts: Hansel and Gretel – Opera North at the Lowry And, even if it’s not ..read more

[tradition] Brüder zur Sonne, zur Freiheit by Ernst Busch from Bekannte Gefühle, Gemischte Gesichter Po Šumama i Gorama (trad.) from Ristić Komplecs  Seen for the third time this April, but this time I got a track-list. Version in show sung by the cast, so why not go for the most grandiose version available online? Deutsch Deutsch Deutsch – Sperma Combo, from 89/90 DJ Krmak – Papagaj from Turbofolk (not reviewed) Step Your Game Up – Snoop Dogg, et al, from An Octoroon (not reviewed) From Victory Condition Hon. mensch: The Nine Inch Nails – She’s Gone Away from ..read more

[seen 14/10/17] Review as and when ..read more

[seen 12/10/17] Again, doubtless I'll also post the review at some point ..read more

[seen 12/10/17] Review forthcoming ..read more

[seen 1?/10/17] review at some point ..read more

[seen 11/10/17] What is “offensive”? It’s one of those words that seems to surface semi-regularly in theatre reviews, but which, like “shocking,” always seems to invoke a kind of platonic ideal of the thing rather than any actual felt emotion on the part of the reviewer. I ask because during the hour and ten minutes (of two hours ten minutes) that I lasted through Zero Point: The Kindly Ones, this was precisely the question I was wrestling with. The piece, which is based on Jonathan Littell’s French bestseller (and apparently supplemented by “quotations from two novels by Vasily Grossman ..read more

[seen 10/10/17] review in due course ..read more

[seen 10/10/17] Review in due course ..read more

[seen 09/10/17] Chris Thorpe’s Victory Condition is brilliant. It’s such a simple idea that I’m staggered it hasn’t been done before now. The action of the play is this: a couple arrive back at their quite nice flat after a short holiday (weekend break?) with their little wheelie suitcases. They open their post (a new computer game from Amazon); they open a bottle of white, airport Marks and Sparks wine; they discover they’ve run out of fish fingers and order a pizza via some app on their iPad; he puts on the computer game; she takes a shower. His little guy runs about on screen killing wi ..read more