Fallen Falls Short

Fallen didn’t quite do it. A piece of physical theatre/clowning the show has all the elements that characterise this genre but we’ve seen it before and we’ve seen it done better. Devlin Mark Brown, who sweats and stumbles through this story of a journalist stuck in the middle of no-where, is charming in places and had a few honest moments of heart-felt acting and did a good job of playing ...

All I could think about was the wet t-shirt

Review: Planet BIt was bladdy flippen cold when I went to see Planet B this afternoon. It was bitterly, miserably cold, and I’m sure  that that is why there were only forty of us in the audience at St Andrews HallThere were some really, really cool things in Planet B (although there were a lot of things that were hellse derivative). It’s an apocalyptic, waterless desert world 29km ...

Suffer for art – Iskander pulls no (stage) punches

Review: Planet BBy Steve KretzmannYissus! Actors are brave. Not for performing on stage – that’s their profession, but for what they allow to be done to them there.While the temperature in St Andrews hall hovered in the low single digits and the near galeforce gusts of wind moaned in the eaves to the extent that Planet B’s soundtrack depicting a wind-shredded post-apocalyptic planet ...

A beef with The Butcher Brothers

Mime, masks, no words, a funny little set. As long as you've got talented mimes you could throw almost anything into that and make a play that'll appeal to a certain audience.Like, how about we try having two main characters who are in…a butcher shop (lots of opportunity for macabre situations). One character’s parents have died tragically and he drowns his sorrows in alcohol. The other ...