A Family All at Sea
✮✮✮✮ Henrik Ibsen's Little Eyolf The Print Room at the Coronet | London directed by Sofia Jupither Sofia Jupither delivers a pointed and pertinent production of Ibsen’s timeless Little Eyolf. Alfred Almers (Kåre Conradi) has returned home from a writing retreat to follow his new vocation, raising his son, Eyolf (Sebastian Sørlie Lamb). But in The National Theatre of Norway’s production (their first appearance in the UK in 18 years), when Alfred first enters he bursts through
Hollywood and the Optimism of Disappointment
✮✮✮✮ Annie Baker's The Flick Seymour Centre | Sydney directed by Craig Baldwin Almost every cinema in the world has completed the transition from analogue to digital. With it comes aficionados bemoaning the loss of authenticity and tradition, in an art form that touches the lives of all. In Annie Baker’s The Flick, not only is celluloid under threat, the employees at a small picture house have friendships that are challenged by what they think to be real or illusory. They spe
We Are the World
✮✮✮✮ Lucy Kirkwood's The Children Sydney Theatre Company | Sydney directed by Sarah Goodes Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children imagines what it would be like, if an all-consuming ecological disaster were to strike today. Instead of the pandemonium surrounding earthquakes and tsunamis, we see an aftermath involving three scientists who are partly responsible for the catastrophe. It is a story about technology, concerned with the way inhabitants of the developed world are failing to f
As the Crow Flies
✮✮✮✮✮ Enda Walsh's Grief is the Thing with Feathers O'Reilly Theatre | Dublin directed by Enda Walsh Grief is the Thing with Feathers, cannily adapted by Enda Walsh from Max Porter’s book to the stage, is a thought-provoking and moving study of the universal experience of grief and how we process it. Porter’s text is a series of alternating monologues from a Dad mourning the loss of his wife, one of his boys, and Crow, the macabre Mary Poppins who comes to look after them i
