Big Ideas
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The GAP Salon was particularly busy this month! What a blast we had at the Southbank Centre’s Women of the World Festival and the Etcetera Theatre’s first annual Womens’ Week! WOW Party at the Southbank Centre. GAP Salon partnered with Female Arts and the So and So Arts Club to throw a “WOW Party” with…
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Waiting for Summer at Camden Etcetera Theatre. My lovely friend Kate Baiden produced this evening of four short plays with Swivel Theatre, exploring themes of Arab women in revolution. The versatile cast of six women played all the roles across type and gender, with a standout performance from Dilek Rose as a hilarious and surprisingly…
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Thebes at New Diorama Theatre. I saw a preview performance of The Faction’s new adaptation of the Oedipus cycle, which attempts to cram three plays into one evening, and ends up doing such a cursory treatment of all the interlinking stories that it tells none of them satisfactorily. The adaptation can’t decide if it’s ancient…
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Okay… new M.O. for the monthly PlayList: I’ll make this easier to write (and read) by only going into detail about plays that provoked a detailed response. For the rest, if you’re curious, you can follow the link to more info or Google some reviews. I’m hoping this will mean that I don’t get so…
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Despite directing a showcase of three short plays this month, I still managed to get to 12 other performances in September (6 of them in the same weekend!!). For more on the showcase I directed, She Writes: What’s Through the Door? check out the project page on my website, or the 17Percent site with links…
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I can’t believe it’s been two months since I moved to London. There is so much to write about, and a full update is coming soon. For now, here’s just one manageable slice of what I’ve been doing: seeing theatre. This is the first of what will be a regular PlayList series. July & August…
AMY CLARE TASKER 