Nobody Sees Hamlet
The audience files into the theater. Lights fade out, chatting subsides. Lights up. a figure enters from stage left. They […]
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WEST END EATS ITSELF IN GAY PC SNOWFLAKE BLOODBATH SHOCKER
Eddie Redmayne has gouged out his own eyes on the steps of the National Theatre after having come under fire from disability activists protesting his plans to play Lear. His long-anticipated return to the stage looks set to break box office records. Kevin Spacey makes dazzling Old Vic comeback starring in play about his own downfall.
The Age of Duse
Duse’s superpower: her capacity to disappear, leaving only her plaster hands as evidence that she was a material presence in the world. Disappearance. Reproduction. She knew the theatrical drill.
From Here to There : Gloss
Is it any different from anyone else? Is anyone even listening? The musician doesn’t know.
Scenes of Appalling Human Degradation : Gloss
Who is that woman in the first paragraph, so jaded and bored? Even when I have seen a show, I have not really seen it. And there is always more to see. I start reading.
On Utopian Time
It’s a performance about parents and children, about generations and time, about a beautiful, troubled nation, about race, about a father imagining a reconciled future for his son...
The Art of Forgetting
They must fully learn the role, but then are given an appropriate span of time to forget it sufficiently.