Thursday, June 5, 2008

ATW NewsClips - London

The Independent

The beats go on: the rise of reggae's sinister side
As a musical of 'The Harder They Come' opens in the West End, Nick Hasted laments the loss of reggae's early idealism and the rise of a darker, more sinister tone

Review: Love - The Musical, Hammersmith Lyric, London

The Times UK

Love — The Musical, Lyric Hammersmith, London
The authors acknowledge senility, dementia and death, which is probably a good thing, but it's a depressing experience

Contractions, Royal Court, London
Mike Bartlett’s new two-hander, directed by Lyndsey Turner, is an intensely disturbing, grotesquely funny experience

Habeas Corpus, Pitlochry Festival Theatre
The Pitlochry season finally roars into life with this fantastically funny play. Alan Bennett’s production does it full justice

The Guardian

Contractions, Royal Court, London
Mike Bartlett's radio play makes for powerful drama even if it loses something in its transfer to the stage, writes Michael Billington

Angels and demons
Can Anne-Marie Duff, the actor of tough women, pull off a nice middle-class mum? By Stuart Jeffries

A question of revenge
Quiz: Try our bloodthirsty little test on 16th and 17th-century theatre of murder, deceit and vengeance

The Guardian - Performing Arts Blog

Chris Wilkinson: Noises off: Oliver, Nancy and some weighty issues

Daily Telegraph

To the depths of indignity
Charles Spencer reviews Love at the Lyric Hammersmith.

Chilling portrait of a moral monster
Dominic Cavendish reviews Contractions at the Royal Court.

Whatsonstage.com

Review: The Revenger's Tragedy

62nd Edinburgh Fringe Programme Launched Today

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