Wonderfully weird madcap nonsense: imagine Monty Python staging a Victorian sitcom. I’m “biast” (pro): am enjoying the work director Mary Franklin is staging
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
My adventures exploring London’s creative fringe continued last weekend when I attended a performance of a new production from director Mary Franklin of theatre company Rough Haired Pointer. (I’ve previously reviewed her The Boy Who Cried and Cleopatra.) This time I discovered a new (to me) pub theatre, the The White Bear Theatre in Kennington, South London, a long-running and storied venue. It’s a fabulous little space at the back of a friendly, unpretentious neighborhood pub… and it’s precisely the sort of place that the comedic protagonist of The Diary of a Nobodywould be horrified to be seen in.
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
My adventures exploring London’s creative fringe continued last weekend when I attended a performance of a new production from director Mary Franklin of theatre company Rough Haired Pointer. (I’ve previously reviewed her The Boy Who Cried and Cleopatra.) This time I discovered a new (to me) pub theatre, the The White Bear Theatre in Kennington, South London, a long-running and storied venue. It’s a fabulous little space at the back of a friendly, unpretentious neighborhood pub… and it’s precisely the sort of place that the comedic protagonist of The Diary of a Nobodywould be horrified to be seen in.
- 6/13/2014
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Snappy, snarky, and brisk, this is a drawing-room update on the classic story of the Egyptian queen, pulled off with effortless screwball panache.
Above the legendary rock ’n’ punk pub The Hope and Anchor in Islington, north London, is the city’s newest Fringe stage venue, The Hope Theatre, dedicated to new writing and to supporting new talent onstage and behind it. What was formerly the pub’s function room, a spot that would serve as a smallish dining room in other similar pubs, has been transformed into a space that, while tiny, makes the most of what it has. There is no stage, per se, and little distinction between actors and audience: at the performance of its production of Cleopatra, a new play by Gareth Cadwallader, I attended last night, the full house (the theatre seats 50) crowded around the set was cast in the role of the goddess-queen’s courtiers,...
Above the legendary rock ’n’ punk pub The Hope and Anchor in Islington, north London, is the city’s newest Fringe stage venue, The Hope Theatre, dedicated to new writing and to supporting new talent onstage and behind it. What was formerly the pub’s function room, a spot that would serve as a smallish dining room in other similar pubs, has been transformed into a space that, while tiny, makes the most of what it has. There is no stage, per se, and little distinction between actors and audience: at the performance of its production of Cleopatra, a new play by Gareth Cadwallader, I attended last night, the full house (the theatre seats 50) crowded around the set was cast in the role of the goddess-queen’s courtiers,...
- 1/11/2014
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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