The Pains and Pleasures of Confinement – Review of “Discord”, Theater am Gleis

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 …

Skating Through Life, Barely Keeping Balance — Review of “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”, Theater Neumarkt

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 …

Review of A NIGHT IN PROVENCE

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 …

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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