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A Vision of The Future Worth Remembering: flatpack art’s Control

REVIEW BY TOM WORSNOP EDITED BY OLIVIA DI GRAZIA Telling three different yet interlinked stories from a far-off future, Control – written by Keziah Warner and presented by flatpack with Theatre Works – offers a powerful dissection of moments where the brutality of control meets the fragility of memories.  Translating a vision of the future into something fit for theatre is a challenge, but flatpack … Continue reading A Vision of The Future Worth Remembering: flatpack art’s Control

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Audience Please Make the Right Decision Challenge Failed: 5 Locktin

REVIEW BY BRONTE LEMAIRE EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT It’s always a pleasure rocking up to the Motley Bauhaus, especially during a night buzzing with theatre festivities. At 9pm the place is packed with Netherworld Festival shows. There’s a guy with wings at the bar, Snape is wandering around telling dad jokes, and I’m pretty sure someone’s upstairs with very little to cover themself–or perhaps nothing … Continue reading Audience Please Make the Right Decision Challenge Failed: 5 Locktin

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Barkly Theatre’s Oedipus: A Complex Look at a Consummate Classic

REVIEW BY MYA HELOU EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT The stage is fully visible when I enter the cozy black-box theatre. Lucas Prescott’s carefully constructed runway of wooden pallets is framed by two white drapes hanging from the ceiling at the back of the stage, oddly human-shaped rubbish bags dumped along the sides. It’s a texturally dense amalgamation that looks like a makeshift rebuilding of something … Continue reading Barkly Theatre’s Oedipus: A Complex Look at a Consummate Classic

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Numa and Karl: A Profoundly Emotional History

REVIEW BY AZMY AZURITE EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT “Are you sure you’re ready for the backlash?” “Of course!” “He’s not.” Numa and Karl: The Extraordinary Man That He Was is the story of Karl Henrich Ulrichs, the first man in history to ever come out as gay. He invented his own word for the phenomenon—urning, its roots in Aphrodite’s epithet Urania, which emphasises Aphrodite’s more … Continue reading Numa and Karl: A Profoundly Emotional History

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Still: A Moment With Beckett

REVIEW BY BRONTE LEMAIRE EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT Adapted for the stage by actor Robert Meldrum and director Richard Murphet, Still takes us through six different prose pieces written by Samuel Beckett. These include Fizzle Still, Variations on a Still Point (which was comprised of Still 3 and Sounds), Stirrings Still, Heard in the Dark and One Evening. What you will quickly notice is that … Continue reading Still: A Moment With Beckett

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