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By Ana Sobral The premise of The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord is rather simple: these three greats of world history (and letters) find themselves inexplicably locked in a room together in the afterlife. No explanation is offered for their confinement and the plot revolves around their attempts …
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By Ana Sobral There are many ways in which you can enjoy this powerful performance at Neumarkt -- if 'enjoy' is indeed the right word. There's laughter, for sure, and you may well find yourself applauding frequently, screaming out words on demand, and rooting for your favourite participants in the crazy dance marathon unravelling before …
By Mansi Tiwari If you ever found yourself flicking through the BBC’s prime time entertainment in the nineties, it is highly unlikely you were able to avoid coming across the quaint life of one Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances. Guess what, she’s back and this time, she’s a Londoner with only one thing on …
By Olivia Tjon-A-Meeuw At no point in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion does the title character actually show up. But that does not really matter anyway, because we all know him as the mythical man who literally made himself the perfect woman. A scenario that nowadays we might call problematic. Yet, Professor Higgins (Stephen Connery-Brown) follows …
By Kyle Greenwood The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is not a perfect play, and not every role in the Blueprint Masquerades' production of it is played to perfection. But therein lies the crux of this deceptively witty piece: we're all fundamentally flawed, right? We're only human, after all. As the action unfolds, and we …
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By Sara Bucher Of course a play called Gun Love would follow a circular Chekhovian logic. As the lights come up: the sound of a gun being cocked. Lights off: gunshot. And in between: lots and lots of guns. “Memory,” Pearl, the narrator, informs the audience near the beginning, “is the only substitute for love.” …
If you have a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it needs to go off at some point. Chekhov's dramatic principle about guns is followed to the letter in Jennifer Clement’s superb new novel.
By Ana Sobral “Maintaining Stranger” really does put emphasis on the word ‘stranger’, be it as an adjective or noun. The very loose narrative revolves around random intimate encounters between absolute strangers, which invariably lead to sexual practices that are uncomfortable to watch. The viewer feels mostly like an inadvertent witness, eavesdropping on conversations that …
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