Review: Concept for a Film

A Beau­ti­ful Har­mo­ny of The­atre, Music and So Mush Spore.   I loved the nov­el for­mat of sto­ry­telling that ‘Con­cept for a Film’ deliv­ered. The scene opens with Max Bar­ton, sit­ting at a desk that faces the audi­ence, read­ing out the script for a film. These read­ings are inter­mit­tent­ly dis­persed with many dis­rup­tions includ­ing phone calls […]

Review: The Culture

The Cul­ture, starts before the per­form­ers come on stage with a mon­tage of video footage of news arti­cles on sys­temic and polit­i­cal misog­y­ny. This sets the scene for the every­day ways women are dis­ad­van­taged that are so embed­ded, that they often go unno­ticed. The news­feed soon fades out, the lights come up, and Will and […]

Review: Wonderful

A Laugh for Lit­er­ary Lovers  Reviewed by Nadia Free­man Richard Huber’s Won­der­ful opens with Lady Hermione and her but­ler Roberts star­ing straight past the audi­ence.  We can not tell imme­di­ate­ly what their rela­tion­ship is, if they are fond of each oth­er, if there is ten­sion, or how long they have known each oth­er.  The set […]