New York's finest talk with Oliver Farrimond about the mind-bending, epoch-hopping brilliance of Architecting
Features, Comedy 22 Aug 2008
Tom Hackett: 1. In astronomy, what are Eris and Makemake? Hmm… It could be new planets, because there’s been new planets and that’s very exciting. But it probably isn’t. New solar syste...
Reviews, Theatre 21 Aug 2008
Oliver Farrimond: Eugene Ionesco's Victims of Duty is one of the more light-hearted works in the French playwright's distinguished theatrical repertoire. A thoroughly post-modern deconstruction of dramatic form and ...
Lucy Jackson: The only way this show could be saved is if the writers, midway through, had decided in a moment of pure artistic genius to metamorphose it into a kind of Orwellian nightmare. Smiley 412, however, ...
Reviews, Comedy, Theatre 21 Aug 2008
Ben Judge: The funniest thing about Sir Barrington Ganch: My Life is Art is the flyer. There's something intrinsically funny about idiotic quotes from fictionalised provincial newsletters – at least it...
Ben Judge: Looking every inch the former student politician, Adie Philbin Bowman—the creator of Jesus: The Guantanamo years—returns to Edinburgh this year with an hour long lecture-come-stand-up a...
Reviews, Comedy 20 Aug 2008
Ciaran Healy: As a double act Roberts and Kamil are slick and engaging. They combine zany but fiercely intelligent material with endearing stage personas in a potent comedy cocktail. Kamil and Roberts share a ...
Reviews, Theatre 20 Aug 2008
Oliver Farrimond: While not quite site-specific theatre, the clammy confines of the Baby Belly venue maintains the bland claustrophobia of air travel effectively. The characters navigate baggage used as improvised s...
Lucy Jackson: The clue is in the title: this production of The Dream may be Footsbarn’s, but it’s not Shakespeare’s. The show will divide those who would happily listen to Shakespeare’s c...
Features 19 Aug 2008
Hannah Thomas: 11am “I always start the day with a cup of peppermint tea and a banana – how pathetic is that?! We only get one day off during the run so I'm going to imagine how I would spend that da...
Reviews, Theatre 19 Aug 2008
Anna Polanyi: Cackling and grinning manically, four actors crawl across the room and onto the stage to a distorted recording of “Over the Rainbow.” And so Crave begins. Sarah Kane is like Sylvia Plat...
Reviews, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews, Comedy, Theatre Reviews, Comedy, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews, Theatre 