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Theatre 2009 Archives - Page 7 of 12 - One4Review

The Sociable Plover

August 8, 2009 |

I have admired Guy Masterson for years and associate any production which bares his name with top quality writing, direction, production and performance. He expects anyone who works with him to give a minimum of 100%. It is obvious … Read More

Your Number’s Up

August 8, 2009 |

This is a very confusing piece of theatre, you felt at times things were going wrong and that the show was nowhere ready for an audience. As the show progressed and I got used to this style I could … Read More

Coffee

August 8, 2009 |

Coffee is a comic swipe at the superficiality of the advertising world. Three advertising executives are seated in a coffee bar and are up against a deadline to dream up an ad to promote a brand of coffee. Steve … Read More

His Ghostly Heart 

August 8, 2009 |

It is not the first time that I have felt in the dark while watching a Fringe theatre piece. But never like this one. Ushered into the intimate attic space at the Pleasance the only set being a bed … Read More

Oh, My Green Soap Box

August 8, 2009 |

Lucy Foster’s performance using a variety of theatrical techniques is intriguing. Her starting point is her concern for global warming and the consequent melting of the ice caps. The drama of this disaster is seen through the likely extinction … Read More

The State We’re In

August 8, 2009 |

Not being a political animal I was not fully aware of Brian Haw nor his unrelenting campaigning. Truth be told I hadn’t really looked at the subject matter, all I saw was Guy Masterson Productions, but isn’t that what … Read More

The Collector

August 8, 2009 |

Vivid Theatre Company stage this adaptation by Mark Healy of the early ‘60’s novel The Collector, written by John Fowles. This book has been made into a movie, a couple of theatre productions as well as inspiring songs by … Read More

Horse

August 8, 2009 |

It was a wet and windy day when I attended this production in the Hullabaloo Bosco tent, a wooden tent and the feeling of a draughty old stable was intensified with bales of straw, a vaulting horse and basically … Read More

The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection …etc   etc   etc

August 8, 2009 |

The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection  or the Survival of (R)evolutionary Theories in the Face of Scientific and Ecclesiastical Objections:  Being a Musical Comedy about Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882)  John Hinton gives a splendidly animated … Read More

A Stroke of Genius

August 8, 2009 |

A drama having genetics and obsession as the central themes is an interesting combination. The central character is Dora Blake, an eccentric and seemingly harmless librarian, played brilliantly by Leah Milner. She is ably supported by the other members … Read More