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New Student Play: 9 Million and Counting
They shake on crammed holds in damp clothes, frightened or, more likely, shell shaken… haunted by flashes of torture on scarred hands and some cold memory of home spoiled by war.It is talk of ‘home’, a...
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‘BENT’ Review
Tonight the Drama Barn is transformed into early 1930s Nazi Germany; a place where terror and uncertainty is growing with each passing moment … This sets the scene for Drama Soc’s interpretation of...
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Review: The Mystae
“I’ve done some weird shit in my time, but this is about the opposite I reckon.” Nick Whitby’s Cornish coming of age drama was recreated in York’s very own Drama Barn. The age old story of teenagers...
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Review: Perplex
“I can only trust in what I can see with my own eyes, seeing as everything, everything is a lie. And in any case, I might want everything to be different. That’s what it says on books as well: this...
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Review: Pomona
“What kind of f*cking world is it, where I’m allowed to live in it?” Alistair McDowell’s Pomona is an evocative look at a complex urban society where people go missing and no one wants to find out...
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Review: TFTV Platform Presents: A Mouthful of Birds
Image credit: the Department of Theatre, Film & Television When I asked director Audun Kruger Abrahamsen why he wanted to put on Caryl Churchill and David Lan’s A Mouthful of Birds, he told me that...
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Review: DramaSoc Presents: Constellations
Image credit: DramaSoc How do you create consistent and compelling characters when the only two characters in the play span a plethora of alternate universes and are different in each? Apparently with...
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Review: TFTV Presents: The Liar
TFTV’s Scenic Stage Theatre is no stranger to early modern French comedies, so it’s with some skill that the team behind The Liar have managed to create something entirely new; a young man named...
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“Post-truth”, the word of the year 2016, was actually coined by playwright Steve Tesich back in 1992, so it’s a fitting and timely subject for this year’s TFTV verbatim trio of political plays around a...
View ArticleReview: Squabbling House presents: Constellations
Image Credit: Harry Elletson On the 19th October, I attended the opening night of Squabbling House Theatre’s debut production Constellations by Nick Payne. The play itself is an ambitious project for...
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