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Originally written for The Public Reviews Transferring from its successful run at the Almeida last year, Richard Eyre’s adaptation of Ghosts gives all impression of bursting on to the stage, but more truthfully edges in quietly from the wings and takes a little time to settle itself before delivering what may already be one of … Continue reading Ghosts
Headlong’s long-anticipated American Psycho has not met with universal acclaim. Since the production’s announcement, and perhaps more so since the casting of Matt Smith, there has been an air of profound curiosity and mild foreboding confusion surrounding critical expectations. For most, some experience of a version of American Psycho has previously entered their cultural awareness; I … Continue reading American Psycho
Originally written for The Public Reviews Now in its second successful run at the Soho Theatre, Blink is – it transpires – every bit as endearingly heartbreaking as promised. Jonah (Harry McEntire), an escapee of a conservative religious commune and Sophie (Rosie Wyatt), grieving deeply at the loss of her father, meet and fall in … Continue reading Blink
Originally written for The Public Reviews As site specific venues go, one cannot ask for better than St. Clement’s – an abandoned psychiatric hospital and former Victorian workhouse on the Mile End Road. The three acre estate is dominated by a derelict clocktower, overgrown in many places and separated from Tower Hamlets Cemetery by a … Continue reading The Players Lab @ Shuffle Festival
Originally written for The Public Reviews As every visible media outlet gears up to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who this week, Toby Hadoke’s comedy double bill arrives to remind us of the painful 16 year wasteland in which there was no Doctor Who, in which the classic programme that had delighted generations of … Continue reading Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf / My Stepson Stole My Sonic Screwdriver
Originally written for The Public Reviews Pecos Bill was raised by coyotes. He rides a horse called Widow-maker and is in love with a girl who rides on the back of a giant catfish. He once lassoed a tornado. He is one of the lesser known larger-than-life characters to have roamed the folklore of the … Continue reading The Many Apologies of Pecos Bill – BAC Cook Up
Mary Halton 