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This has split the critics.
Well, I’ve only read two reviews but Benedict Nightingale of the Times gives it 4 stars and Lyn Gardner of the Guardian gives it 1 star and a very scathing review.
They both make valid points. Lyn argues Ryan Craig is writing “inept string of cliches, stereotypes and bad Jewish jokes” […]
Here’s the programme for the whole of Unzipped. Come along and see something!
The timetable:
Thursday 13th October
Panel Discussion: 5pm - 6pm
Panellists: Kwame Kwei-Armah, Topher Campbell, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Femi Elufowoju Jr.
Play Readings:
6.15pm Batty Man by Troy Andrew Fairclough
6.50pm On the Eve of the Collapse by Ben Yeoh
7.25pm The Coming of Beauty by Kofi Agyemang
Friday 14th October
Panel […]
Miranda Sawyer wants to ban Shakespaereare for a bit:
“…We should be brave enough to go a year without Shakespeare: to ban him from our theatres for just 365 days, just to see what else is out there, what other plays are worth digging up, or commissioning, or reinterpreting. While we’re at it, let’s ban […]
David Farr replies to Billington.
In the Guardian on September 8, Michael Billington Re: David Farr’s Julius Caesar, at the Lyric Hammersmith (where he is now artistic director)felt that the use of modern dress ignored “the play’s roots in Elizabethan politics”, and that comparing Caesar’s world to that of an ex-Soviet republic was a […]
A resident company of black actors will perform a four-month African-American season of plays at the Tricycle.
The run will start with the British premier of Abram Hill’s Walk Hard, directed by the Tricycle’s artistic director Nicolas Kent.
[Given Talawa doesn’t look like it will be getting its permanent home] this is likely to be one of […]
A reading of my new play is on Thursday, October 13 at the Soho Theatre. It’s one of three plays in the Talawa Unzipped season.
The readings start at 6.15pm [mine is second probably 6.50pm start] and there’s a panel discussion starting at 5pm with some great people, if you can make it for then.
Do come. […]
Bean comments on Harvest criticism here.
I think it is hard for writers not to be affected by critics to some extent and it’s good to know, very good and important writers have the jitters about it too.
Critics have pointed to an “unbalanced” last scene. From my view, it may be argued that itis unbalanced […]
I really enjoyed Harvest at the Royal Court. It has many elements of great theatre. I guess from Bean’s point of view, the only things he might have liked more is a bigger stage (see my previous posts on Monsterism).
It had scale and humour. Billington would like it for its “big ideas”. Good story, great […]