Work Tagged ‘Theatre’

Let’s Paint TV (Electrofringe, This Is Not Art)

The Brag,

October 2009

First published in The Brag.

The written word serves visual comedy poorly. So go now and watch performance artist Mr Let’s Paint TV on YouTube. He’s not hard to find.

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Crack Theatre (This Is Not Art)

The Brag,

October 2009

First published in The Brag.

For the first time in five years, Newcastle’s This is Not Art festival (TINA) has added a new player to its ranks as Crack Theatre joins Electrofringe, Sound Summit, Critical Animals and National Young Writers’ Festival in October.
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Mr Fibby (This Is Not Art – Crack Theatre)

The Brag,

October 2009

First published in The Brag.

One of novelist Kurt Vonnegut’s eight lessons on writing is to create at least one character people care about. The next? Make awful things happen to them.
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References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot

September 21, 2009

First published in The Brag.

Actors love to talk about the rigourous roles they select. But how many of them have played a wild desert coyote who wants to fuck, and then eat, a house cat? Welcome to the magic realist theatrical landscape of ‘References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot’.

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This kind of ruckus – review (Performance Space)

The Brag,

September 14, 2009

First published in The Brag street press, or here.

There’s a tendency to steel yourself prior to a play about sexual violence; to assume you’ll leave feeling battered and brutalised, just as a victim of rape does. The topic is often treated with gruelling heavy-handedness, like this were the only fair way to communicate the devastating impact of sexual violence.

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