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‘Has a sensorial richness’: MIDNIGHT MOVIE – Royal Court Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly7th December 2019Leave a Comment

Stories swirl around each other in Midnight Movie at the Royal Court, growing and fading like variations on a theme in a piece of classical music. It’s heady and disorientating, like a surreal bad dream, yet strangely compelling.

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‘Oddly unengaging’: MIDNIGHT MOVIE – Royal Court Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz5th December 2019Leave a Comment

I wanted to love this Midnight Movie, but — like almost any screen experience — I couldn’t quite connect with it. Despite some disturbing passages, it feels like less than the sum of its parts.

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‘It touches the emotional parts that other media simply don’t’: ORPHEUS – Battersea Arts Centre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz24th December 2018Leave a Comment

Little Bulb, an award-winning company of actor-musicians which is based in the South East and tours nationwide, has revived their version of Orpheus, and the result is breathtaking.

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‘It is as an ode to music itself that the show really succeeds’: ORPHEUS – Battersea Arts Centre ★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Michael Davis17th December 2018Leave a Comment

If Orpheus was simply a re-telling of this myth, it would be over very quickly. Instead, music features heavily in the show – some of which are original compositions and some are well-known pieces of classical music.

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Edinburgh Fringe: The Humble Heart of Komrade Krumm

In Edinburgh Festival, Festivals, Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Johnny Fox14th August 2016Leave a Comment

May the gods spare us from student visions of dystopian futures. We are beyond a new ice age, in the fifth millennium when the British isles have drifted Norsewards and the people speak cod Icelandic.

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