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 …
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Review of PYGMALION
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 …
Review of THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT
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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Review of GUN LOVE at Theater Neumarkt
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.” …
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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.
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