Reunion are very cool imo and it is easy to feel for them. It also doesn't feel that much like a twist in the grand scheme of things because they've clearly been played as tragic since at least chapter 3 and with every chapter since we've gotten more on them and each time I think...
– by her academic employer she speaks the great lines and translates with eloquent beauty, ordering the sacred rivers to run backwards and start the world anew. Howard Brenton’s new play is a deliberate echo of Thomas Hardy’s darkest work, Jude the Obscure: an updated riff on his angry...
of pulling the Cosmic Trigger and sharing love and strength and harmony, mostly just rolling over and abandoning its most vulnerable people, conforming with the worst instincts of increasingly fascist capitalism and acting like everything will be Just Fine. Ignoring...
a messy studio-barn-conversion). Here Peter McKintosh’s s set is traditional, which permits an especially magical moment for Felicity Kendal in the second act finale, draped backwards over the banister in stage
A Don't talk to me as I F#m D tune you out of my mind A I Won't bend over backwards or F#m D Take another step ahead to E Hear from you again Don't A E talk to me as I walk alone I'd F#m D Much rather be riding prone than A E F#m D Be just another one you...
‘It’s just so weird. I feel like something else is going on. Maybe the president was threatened or something. Maybe the “status quo” is coming back and will take their revenge on the America that voted for the president, you know, just like after Bush. I don’t like it. This ...
I ain't gonna turn coward again. Leaving Siracusa was the last step backwards for my Family. I'd rather die here like a true Sicilian than ever let the enemy see me run off with my tail between my legs. Perhaps in your mind, this is the way for a warrior to behave. But for a ...
birdsong and washing-lines and moody piano, and deft unfussy costume-changes as the four actresses dodge around the decades, backwards and forwards. And, occasionally, step out of time to become their child selves – as if they were contemporaries, little girls playing in a ‘waste ground’....
Maitland flashes backwards and forwards from the pinch-point in 1989 to earlier days – when Chancellor Howe rescued the new leader from a potential party revolt, and to the triumphant conference of 1983 when she demanded the opposition be “routed!”. As the years go by the sidelining and ...
sexist and furiously crackers play into something incredibly lean and precise. Everything is incredibly measured, making the flashes of anger even more terrifying. Soutra Gilmour’s brilliant set is a deep, abstract room which zooms backwards as if looking down the barrel of a gun. A single do...