Theatre in the Theatre

Lovborg’s Women is theatre about theatre. This is always fun to do and fun to watch, but you need to have your target market very carefully sussed out for it to work well.The actors were great. A teeny audience of about 15 in the ±200-seater Glennie Hall, and they gave us as much as they’d have given a full house. They were funny, and did their best to keep us with them through a ...

Exquisite torture

Body of Evidence hurt. It made me angry, made me want to leave.But as the lights came up after the last waves of James Webb’s surreal amplified sounds of bodily organs receded, and the manic, incoherent ranting of the performers subsided, I realised that in the face of this production I was merely a mouse herded through an intricate maze of passages – akin to the skin, bone, muscle and ...