REVIEW: The View From Nowhere, Park Theatre ✭✭✭
Maybe that is because there are no grey areas, making The View From Nowhere’s tone of frustration and anger one that is fully deserved.
Dan Phillips
New style of ‘broken’ musical premieres at the King’s Head in March
Broken Cabaret presents Something Something Lazarus – a dark comedy about resurrections, second chances and the healing power of performance. It’s being described as a “broken” musical: a fast-dissolving rehearsal ending with a fractured show, where songs are interrupted, directed, repurposed, and undercut. This new British musical transports the audience to a half-dead cabaret bar where, with the unveiling of a delivery from the owner’s distant past, matters quickly skid into overdrive. Alongside the action on stage, Something Something Lazarus endeavours to change the way audiences consume stories with the tools and techniques of transmedia storytelling – characters, spaces and motifs will have a web presence, websites, social media accounts … Email them and get a response. Tweet them and see how they react. With strong queer sensibilities and language, song and perspectives pointed towards the world of cabaret, the theatrical and musicals, John Myatt, Simon Arrowsmith and frequent King’s … Read more
REVIEW: I Went To A Fabulous Party, Kings Head ✭✭
The King’s Head has a notable tradition in supporting contemporary drama on gay themes, but sadly as things stand this new 65-minute play by And Davies does not add very many leaves to those laurels. It is not by any means without potential and with a longish run ahead in Edinburgh in August there is scope for development and refinement of both the text and the depth and authenticity of the acting.
