Topic: Performance reviews

Neverland is here: Peter Pan

Neverland is here: Peter Pan

Another favourite from 2010 was The National Theatre of Scotland’s enchanting production of Peter Pan. Continue reading

I had read the unabridged book aloud in the winter. In mid May I saw the play. Two choices continue to delight and haunt me. First, Tinker Bell was played by lighter paper. Really. It was extraordinary. Second, a body double was used in the ...MORE >
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A Disappearing Number: fine image-making

A Disappearing Number: fine image-making

Top evenings at the theatre in 2010 included the return to London of Complicite’s 2005 production A Disappearing Number, which we saw in September. Continue reading

...because it rendered complex ideas accessible, by mashing up a real story of friendship and collaboration from the 1910s with a fictional story of contemporary love across distance ...because the love stories moved me, as did the moments of loss, so much so that ...MORE >
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A lesson from the boards

A lesson from the boards

A hit comedy on London’s West End called La Bête, pitched as a contest between populist and elitist culture, is also about the problem of innovation within organisations. Continue reading

Set in 1650 in France, the plot concerns a street clown thrust upon the Court-appointed playwright by an autocratic princess. Her reason: the playwright’s troupe is growing stale. In the clown’s performances in the public square, and the non-sensical accounts he gives ...MORE >
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