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Review: The Faction’s Twelfth Night, New Diorama ***

JBR — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:59:34 +0000

The Faction’s first play in their winter Rep Season at the New Diorama Theatre offers a more modern slant on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Director Mark Leipacher has capitalised on his skills in award-winning ensemble work to interject some interesting angles on a variety of scenes, which serve to amuse and intrigue.

Review: Julius Caesar – RSC @ The Roundhouse ****

PKM — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:50:15 +0000

Julius Caesar is Shakespeare’s summer blockbuster, positively bristling with action packed violence. It’s a miracle Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe haven’t got their manly mitts all over it. But maybe it’s Shakespeare’s premature ejaculation that’s putting them off; the first act may be dripping with quotes like jewels, clima Read more ...

Theatre Review: The Tempest – Tabacco Factory, Bristol

PKM — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:59:12 +0000

This production has a split personality. Close your eyes and listen to the rich soundscape of Dan Jones and Carlo Ippolito; open them and see the barest of sets.

A rope and swinging lantern for the shipwreck and not even a branch or a twig to denote the island.

Close your eyes again and listen to a spitting angry Caliban (Christoph Read more ...

Theatre Review: The Tempest – Platform 4

PKM — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:11:31 +0000

Angry, aggressive and animalistic. Richard Nutter's Caliban, seized the attention of the audience with his knuckled hands, twisted body and taut tirades as he sprung like a dismembered sheep in his ripped white fleece from a trap door in the stage. It was powerful, gripping and an authentic performance in an uneven production.

Platfor Read more ...