Last year, one play rattled my bones like no other: Sport for Jove’s production of Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens. My five-star review enthused that it had “a truth, an energy and a ferocity to make the blood drain from your face”, and a “visceral, raw, compelling and moving” performance from…
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Reginald Theatre, May 31 7/10 Eureka Day is a satire to make you squirm more than laugh. Exaggeration is almost non-existent, the corollary being that naturalism is ratcheted up to the point where it can seem like spying on real people more than watching a play. Playwright Jonathan Spector takes…
Old Fitz Theatre, May 25 9/10 Although Alex never appears, Tenkei, a Buddhist nun, speaks for us when she tells Mary Jane, Alex’s mother, “I see him very clearly.” Alex, two-and-a-half years old, has been riddled with critical medical conditions since birth. Mary Jane has split with the father, and…