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Co-creating Through Blue
I thought I understood Through Blue until I started talking about it.With most pieces of theatre there is more to hear then just the text, there is a beautiful thing called subtext which is what is really going on. If you are to truly understand and learn from what is happening on stage, you must focus on what drives the characters. Following Freud you know that subtext is a literature term ...
Lost and lovin’ it
By Mike LoeweI am not a reviewer. I am an audience participator, and if anyone can improve on that mouthful, let me know.We take different things from shows. Sometimes this is what we say when we don’t actually get it.Last year I wrote voluminously about Wreckage, which starred Andrew Buckland. It was crazy wild, but we got it and it was extraordinary.This year I watched Andrew ...
Through Blue is Gold Standard
Wow. If you need advice on what’s good to see, see this. Ubom! has outdone themselves this year with Through Blue. It’s relevant, surprising and exciting, and will mean different things to different people. I experienced South Africa, in all its struggling through our “toekoms vol gate”, as the closing song says.It is clear. It hits the right notes. The performances are guided yet ...
Teething tech tales
Written by Simon Cooper: The hills are alive with the sound of gnashing teeth (emanating from the Fringe mainly) as once again it seems that the technical side of things is less than reasonable expectations.Through Blue announced on Bookface at 2.30 this morning that they would not perform their scheduled first show this afternoon because of tech difficulties. Two of the three venues at ...
