Coarse and tender, defiant and vulnerable, Fat Blokes by Scottee is indeed “a (sort of) dance show”, but to pass it off as entertainment or strictly performative would to be dismiss the heart of its purpose and the spirit in which it was conceived.
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The Taming of the Shrew is a controversial Shakespeare classic. With central themes of power and gender, it is a hard text to tackle. Is it a complicated love story? Or the breaking of a woman within patriarchal society?
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This winner of the Papatango New Writer’s prize is a compelling and challenging piece of theatre to watch. Tackling the tension between ingrained personal belief and the ethical morals of wider, Western society, ‘The Funeral Director’ (by Iman Qureshi) does not shy away from the big issues and challenging the audience’s sympathies.
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The Dark Carnival offers a unique perspective on the underworld and the afterlife, one where doom and gloom has been traded for husky jazz and smuggled whisky. God has seemingly left everyone adrift in a gap between the dreaded Hell and an ‘at capacity’ Heaven which turns desperate souls away, and the living let opportunities to connect with the dead pass them by.
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As the audience members find their way to their seats, Mackay is already in character, hanging up laundry in the life-like kitchen set.
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‘My Fair Lady’ is the musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s 1912 play ‘Pygmalion’. Set in Edwardian London, it follows the metamorphosis of a coarse young guttersnipe into a charming young lady through the guidance of a distinguished but provocative phonetician.
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