Category: Reviews
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3 stars – 60s rollercoaster Chickie is a mother, a wife who tries her best to keep her husband close to her and her children, but first of all a courageous woman in search for happiness and freedom.
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3 Stars – pastel-colour journey A person embarks on a journey. She knows in which direction to go, but what he finds does not correspond to expectations. He embarks on a new journey. They find themselves in a new place, maybe more comfortable than the previous ones.
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4 Stars – surprising creation A date, a lie. What are the borders of respect when you just get to know someone – unsuspecting that this relationship will grow – and you have an instinct to please? What does the seed of that lie bring? How are power-relationships shaped, and how are they to change?…
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4 stars – powerful fresco Famine, fire, war, and death. They are in the Bible, represented by the four Horsemen of Apocalipsis. They are, also, in a more literal form, in the suburbs of big cities. Four women of different ages track a geography of Bracknell on the last school day before summer holidays.
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5 stars – literally marvellous I thought it wasn’t literal. I thought it must be some reduction of a kind, something more or less inspired by the Shakespearean tragedy. I didn’t think it possible that two people could do the whole of Hamlet. I was wrong.
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4 stars – A feminist myth Io and Prometheus share a sense of rebellion, but of different natures. Prometheus has defied Zeus by giving fire and hope to mankind. Io suffers for Zeus’s whim but doesn’t want to surrender to the idea that gods can be cruel and the world purposeless.
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5 stars –storytelling of a quest On stage, everything bears meaning. In the real world, it doesn’t. Humans have a tendency to extend the search for meaning to the hazard and randomness of events, be it to feel in control, or as a defence mechanism.
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4 stars – highly entertaining and insightful When you see a play twice, you become more critical. You are more aware of the technical aspects, and the plot is no longer a surprise, nor the wits are. This evening, Mabel Thomas’s Sugar was more entertaining than last year.
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4 stars – God damn honest James Nokise runs a brilliant and honest stand-up comedy. He is a kiwi and ironises about the perception of his New Zeland-Samoan identity abroad (and related episodes of racism). He loves making fun of his preacher father and has some very funny story about ‘f*cking’ Donald Trump.
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2 stars – Celebration of friendship Jack is tormented by the mourning of his best friend Michael. He hallucinates about the whistle of the train who killed him, when Michael reappears in flesh and bones, but visible to him alone.
