This new play about refugee-camp life in Calais is a gruelling docu-drama, powerful but oh so middle class!
Text of the Day: Goats
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
‘You have goat to be kidding me’: GOATS – Royal Court Theatre
You have goat to be kidding me: the Royal Court’s latest experiment is a tonally-confused take on the Syrian conflict, fake news, and livestock management.
‘The animals are the real stars’: GOATS – Royal Court Theatre
Go goats! New play about truth and lies in the Syrian conflict is upstaged by its animal performers.
PALMYRA – #EdFringe
Two men glide around the floor on small wheeled platforms. Like children, belly down on skateboards, they relish the speed and inability to control their paths.
NEWS: Sadler’s Wells’ Requiem for Aleppo raises funds for refugees
Requiem for Aleppo, a brand new work created and conceived by composer David Cazalet with choreography by Jason Mabana, will premiere at Sadler’s Wells on Sunday 23 April 2017. The night will be introduced by BBC World Affairs editor John Simpso
CORRESPONDENCE – Old Red Lion Theatre
New drama about the Arab Spring in Syria gets diverted into a story about mental health and is too complicated as a result.
CORRESPONDENCE – Old Red Lion Theatre
New drama about the Arab Spring in Syria gets diverted into a story about mental health and is too complicated as a result.
CORRESPONDENCE – Old Red Lion Theatre
It’s 2011. Ben and Jibreel are typical teenaged boys – obsessed with video games, worried about girls, school, friends and family. They regularly meet on X-box Live for lengthy gaming sessions and banter, though they’ve never met. Ben lives in Stockport and Jibreel in Daraa, Syria.
CORRESPONDENCE – Old Red Lion Theatre
This is Ben. See Ben run. See Ben play on X-Box. See Ben go to Syria. Lucinda Burnett’s clever concept, Correspondence, is smartly staged at the Old Red Lion and blessed with a credible and charismatic central performance by Joe Attewell as sixteen-year-old Ben.
GARDENS SPEAK – Battersea Arts Centre
An intimate audience of ten each hear the recorded monologue of an individual martyr who died fighting against Asad’s forces, but they have to experience some discomfort in the process. Gardens Speak lasts a mere 30 minutes but irrevocably alters the detached western view of Middle Eastern conflict, fostering empathy and despair for fellow man.