Eternity Playhouse, October 9 7/10 She’s as hard as her surname. On the surface. Beneath that lie various strata of gravel, grit and dirt, and it’s only deeper still you hit the little seams of guilt, vulnerability and compassion. It’s not easy being Maggie Stone: bank loans officer, sick, lonely…
Category: Theatre Reviews
Q Theatre, October 5 3/10 Staging Julius Caesar necessitates using some of the finest verse in Shakespeare’s canon to paper over the play’s structural and narrative fault-lines. Enthral an audience with this verse, dispersed between Antony, Brutus, Cassius and Calphurnia, and the other dimension, the politics of backstabbing, are –…
Drama Theatre, September 14 7/10 Karl Marx thought it religion that stupefied us into obeisance. Writing 127 years later, Dario Fo astutely hit upon what had become the new mass opiate: scandal – and this nearly half a century before Trump, fake news and social media! Imagine the Italian playwright’s…