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Simon sums it up: day four
Written by Simon Cooper: SPREAD THE WORD PEOPLE.Not a day of rest ! Five shows in all.Some Festivals ago two of us were persuaded by the younger version of a now well known theatre person, who draped herself provocatively over our table in the booking tent, that a healthy dose of sex at 10h00 on Sunday morning was a good idea - not, I hasten to add, in any context other than a show she ...
Sie Weiss Alles: A great work
Review: Sie Weiss AllesJames Cairns and Taryn Bennet in a script written by James. It is no secret that I am head over heels with James Cairns as a performer. I won't miss anything he does. (Dirt is one of three shows at the festival that I would be prepared to see again.) I also think that Taryn is gorgeous. So it was a no-brainer that I would enjoy their performances but, I must ...
Sie Weiss Alles hits the spot
Review: Sie Weiss AllesAs the Russians are approaching Berlin, an SS officer, who was a theatre critic (yes, a rather amusing touch that: the Nazi theatre critic, but, he does only do clerical work) before the war, is interrogating an actress about the whereabouts of her father, who, it is suspected, has gone to the Americans. They rehearse the “Get thee to a nunnery … ” scene from ...
Bring on the insouciants
It’s been niggling at the back of my mind for the last two festivals or so, and it seems to be a developing phenomenon: a nonchalant approach to stagecraft.Thinking of theatre seen over the last two decades odd, there is an underlying sense of tightly controlled staging, a certain rigidity regarding the basic rules of putting on a show. If you’re doing mime you stick to mime and innovate ...
