Reviews & features: Theatre, Siân Hickson
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Belt Up’s Twenty Minutes to Nine
14 Aug 2011
Compelling performance with uncertain audience-actor dynamic
This young company continue their commitment to fine storytelling in this solo piece documenting the unresolved history of an embittered woman (who may or may not be a famous literary archetype), inviting the audience into her secluded world to hear ‘a…
Now is the Winter
25 Aug 2010
Confusion abounds
Unless you’re seriously intimate with Shakespeare’s original give this a miss. This one-woman reinterpretation of Richard III retells the story from his ascendancy to the battle of Bosworth through the eyes of a faithful servant. A challenging notion…
Freefall
20 Aug 2010
Take the plunge
Michael West’s new work has already garnered a clutch of accolades in the company’s native Dublin, and richly deserved they are too. This is a piece of startlingly brilliant theatre; the powerful and enthralling tale of ‘a perfectly normal life’ told in…
Reykjavik
19 Aug 2010
Get on the next flight
Not one for the participation-averse, but any production where you get to dress as a Ghostbuster is fine by me. Flippancy aside, this is something a bit special. The unpromising surroundings of the Bongo Club are transformed into an evocative…
Are You There?
14 Aug 2010
Above-average student drama
A dingy apartment is the setting for this paranormal tale of a fraught couple’s enforced cohabitation with a sinister presence. Adapter/director Charlie Ward has done a cracking job with Javier Daulte’s original work and the young cast of two rise…
Burst
14 Aug 2010
Atmospheric as a whole, but the script lacks polish
This tale of a Sudanese girl forced into an arranged marriage in the wake of colonial independence sadly fails to sparkle. The plot is unnecessarily and clunkingly intercut with a rushed account of her uncle’s fatal foray into 1920s London, which is…
Shakespeare the Man From Stratford
12 Aug 2010
Spellbinding mix of thundering speeches and historical storytelling
Simon Callow’s Fringe show is a magnificent three-course banquet of storytelling that will prove irresistible to anyone with a passing interest in Shakespeare. Writer Jonathan Bate builds a biography of the Bard told around extracts from his works…
The Fly in the Fridge
12 Aug 2010
No flies on this
This is what the Fringe is all about. One ersatz stage, one stepladder, and one immensely-talented performer. Karin de la Penha enacts the traumatic true story of an Orphean journey through an underworld of heroin and prostitution. At times almost…
