An old lady is about to be evicted from her home because an artist is doing an important site-specific response piece in the building. “Social cleansing under the cover of art”, she calls it and then a guy in a cat costume walks on and snarls at the audience. To call Ridiculusmus’ show The World […]
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Electra
She can no longer stomach the size of her sorrow, Electra says, but neither can the others at Aegisthus’ court. Her mother, her sister and the chorus, all want her to stop lamenting Agamemnon’s death. Her father, killed years ago by her mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus, hovers over Electra as a soul-sucking memory […]
Shoot, I Didn’t Mean That / The Last Days of Mankind
Karl Kraus was one of the most acutely-observing writers in the German language and Time Zone Theatre now presents the epilogue of Kraus’ epic piece The Last Days of Mankind: The Last Night in a new translation by Edward Timms and Fred Bridgham. Together with Shoot, I Didn’t Mean That, a piece of new writing […]
The Wall at the Old Red Lion
There’s that one summer where hopscotch gets left behind, the football gathers dust in the corner and when exploring sexuality or alcohol become way more important than school exams. In Mayford Road’s production of D C Jackson’splay The Wall acrobatic verbal dissent between four teenagers breaks up the syrup of summer holiday boredom, and a […]