Category: Theatre
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3 stars – dystopian episodes The planet is collapsing, and humanity will disappear. In this dystopian play, three episodes are presented, where couples of the remaining humans have to struggle to keep being alive – and to keep their sanity. The question that looms over every scene seems to be the following: how do we…
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3 Stars – nicely weird In Central Park, two characters meet who would not usually have contact with each other. Peter, a well-off man with a wife and children, is having his Sunday reading time on a bench. Jerry doesn’t reveal much about his background, but his ways are not as polite as Peter would…
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5 stars – humanly divine What was mankind before it invented god? What was mankind before it got to the conclusion that it had invented god? There is something bringing us to a ‘beginning’, not the biblical one. There was a body, the body of the Wild Woman.
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5 stars – hilarious & provoking Mother Nature is not in good health. And it’s not because of delivering so many sons and daughters, they made her grow stronger with the power of creation.
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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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