This raucous romp with a proclivity for puns and a lot of alliterative ardour flails ferociously to amuse. If someone had dirt on Tarantino and forced him to do a period piece with pirates the result would look a little like Nougat for Kings. The show borrows not only the master of neo-noir’s tangled plots […]
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Mummenschanz at the Peacock Theatre
It’s just a white line on the floor, the rest is black. Then, a tiny part of the line moves and after a while it slowly erects itself. It bends down again and suddenly comes to life. It wriggles about and dances to some kind of silent beat. This simple white line has turned into […]
The Last Days of Limehouse by Yellow Earth
Have you wandered around London’s China Town lately? The pretty gates in Soho serve as a popular tourist attraction but have you ever wondered where the Chinese community in London actually lives? Not in Soho, that’s for sure, swamped as it is with actor’s agents and film post-production offices. The Last Days of Limehouse invites […]
In Lambeth at the Southwark Playhouse
A sprawling tree like a cradle, a serene haven for suburban Adam and Eve: Catherine and William Blake. When a visitor intrudes, Paradise is Lost in more than one way. The tree leaves are dead and the crowd outside of this South London Eden is roaring. Revolutions, counter revolutions – killing in the name of […]