‘these death-white realms’: Iceland
In the early stages of Jane Eyre, the child heroine looks over a copy of Bewick's History of British Birds. The introductory pages captivate her; she cannot 'pass unnoticed the suggestion of the bleak shores of Lapland, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nova Sembla, Iceland, [and] Greenland'.
Read MoreReview: The Odyssey
The Paper Cinema’s Odyssey is nothing short of exceptional. This is an ensemble performance developed out of BAC’s scratch process and made up of five performers, two puppeteers and three musicians, creating the company’s first feature length film. But this is no ordinary film.
Read MoreReview: Medea
Rachael Stirling’s Medea is at once disturbing, manic, depressed and isolated. She is compelling; she drives this production and takes you deep into the woman’s psychology. This is a woman who will delve her hand into a boiling pot of water, in front of her child.
Read MoreReview: Entity
Entity begins and ends with screen footage of a greyhound running at speed. It somehow reminds me of Edgar Degas and the artist’s preoccupation with the moving, stretching, athletic form of animals, bathing figures and, not least, dancers.
Read MoreReview: Beautiful Burnout (National Tour)
Bryony Lavery’s play in this co-production by Frantic Assembly and National Theatre of Scotland is given texture, depth and dynamism to make this a rich, engaging and moving production.
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