It doesn’t take long to understand why Rafaella Marcus’ debut play Sap garnered so many rave reviews at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe. The quality of the writing and its exceptional delivery under Jessica Lazar’s direction make an instant impression, even before the complexity of the play and its themes fully comes to light.
‘Listen, taste, watch, smell & touch the world around you’: The You Play: small acts – Written on the Waves (Online review)
Audio drama small acts is part of 45North’s Written on the Waves series, and the first of the two You Plays.
NEWS: Sharon D. Clarke & Katherine Parkinson are among the cast for new audio project Written on the Waves
Sharon D. Clarke and Katherine Parkinson are among the cast for new audio project Written on the Waves presented by 45North and Ellie Keel Productions.
‘Drawing a careful distinction between heroism & honour’: BURY THE DEAD – Finborough Theatre
In Irwin Shaw’s Bury the Dead, written in 1935, six fallen American soldiers stand up in their graves and courteously ask not to be buried.
‘Accentuates the emotional reality of the situation’: BURY THE DEAD – Finborough Theatre ★★★★
The heart of Bury The Dead is the army using the loved ones to emotionally manipulate the soldiers to ‘obey orders’ – or at least try to.
‘Unique & engaging story’: BURY THE DEAD – Finborough Theatre ★★★
Bury the Dead at Finborough Theatre is a unique and engaging story which captures the sense of unjust, premature death at the mercy of someone else’s agenda.
‘Directed with energy & passion’: I HAVE A MOUTH & I WILL SCREAM – Vault Festival #Vault2018
I can appreciate the effort made by the company in I Have a Mouth & I Will Scream to address the fundamental difficulty of being a contemporary feminist, but I am left a little wanting.
‘The perfect show for right now’: I HAVE A MOUTH & I WILL SCREAM – Vault Festival
The publicity for Abi Zakarian’s I Have A Mouth and I Will Scream at The Vaults puts it better than I ever could – it’s “a play-performance-art-protest-thing”.
PUPPY – Vaults
Two women meet and fall in love whilst engaging in a spot of dogging, the start to every classic fairytale. Well, it is in Puppy at least, a work in progress by Naomi Westerman.
FEATURED SHOW: The Wild Party at the Hope Theatre, ★★★★★ reviews are in!
Have you seen the myriad five- and four-star reviews for our Featured Show, Mingled Yarn Theatre’s two-hander play with music based on Joseph Moncure March’s once-banned 1928 poem THE WILD PARTY? Here’s a selection of some of our favourite review quotes.
THE WILD PARTY – Hope Theatre
A poem performed as a 65 minute play and in the most innovative and inviting way imaginable, as a nifty two-hander interspersed with postmodern jukebox-style songs. Joey Akubeze and Anna Clarke made a stunning job of engaging the audience in Joseph Moncure March’s piece.
The Wild Party: Rhyming & raunching onstage
Poetry dramatised: for me, the real strength in Mingled Yarn Theatre’s staging of The Wild Party is in providing a platform for Joseph Moncure March’s full, unadulterated poem.
INTERVIEW: Spotlight On… The Wild Party director Rafaella Marcus
The Wild Party started life as a long narrative poem by Joseph Moncure March published in 1928 – it was made into two musicals, which is how most people know it but they’re very loose adaptations – we’re going right back to the original text.
INTERVIEW: Producer David Ralf talks about Hope’s The Wild Party
Producer David Ralf explains why he was so drawn to book-length poem THE WILD PARTY, what audiences can expect and why The Hope is the perfect space to present Mingled Yarn’s refreshing take on this classic piece of literature.
NEWS: Hope Theatre stages new play version of The Wild Party
Before the St James Theatre relaunches as The Other Palace with Michael John LaChiusa’s musical of The Wild Party, Mingled Yarn company returns to the original source, Joseph Moncure March’s 1928 poem, for a brand-new two-hander play version staged at north London’s Hope Theatre.
THE WINDOW / BLANK PAGES – Hope Theatre
Two stories of disappointment and loneliness come together in the first UK revival of The Window and Blank Pages, single-act plays by playwright Frank Marcus (perhaps best known for his play The Killing of Sister George). Lovingly directed by the writer’s granddaughter, Rafaella Marcus of Mingled Yarn, the pieces deal with similar themes, and despite being written three years apart, they’re presented in a seamless single production that ultimately suggests they may be connected by more than their subject matter.