Over on My London Your London I’ve a review of a fascinating production reworking the medieval ship of fools metaphor for the modern age. Yet Andrew Bovell’s Ship of Fools also keeps one foot in the medieval world – in Basel of 1492 to be precise.
Over on My London Your London I’ve a review of the Union Theatre’s fine production of Stars in the Morning Sky, a translation of Alexander Galin’s account of a group of prostitutes forced out of Moscow in 1980 in the pre-Olympics “clean-up”. It is the first in a series of productions with female directors as part of the theatre’s anniversary celebrations – that this requires still special arrangements is, well, depressing…
Over on My London Your London Jon has an entrancing review of a new interpretation of Georg Buchner’s Leonce and Lena. Somehow, in Britain of 2007 (and quite possibly America too), some of the old, great, satires are feeling all too relevant.
I’ve been contemplating the tragically short career of the playwright Sarah Kane, which I’ve just reviewed over on My London Your London. A great talent cut short.
Over on My London Your London I’ve a review of On Religion, the AC Grayling/Mick Gordon production at the Soho, which I caught just before it closed.
The philosophy is entertaining, the family drama, even soap opera, aspects, rather less so…
… as recorded by Alexander Ostrovsky in Moscow in 1849 and performed today by the Arcola Theatre.
The censor complained “All the characters in the play – the merchant, his daughter, the lawyer, the clerk and the matchmaker – are first-rate villains. The dialogue is filthy. The entire play is an insult to the Russian merchant class.”
And at its best, a lot of fun.
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