 reviewed by Peter Hawes 12 May 2008 |
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Whodunit? “You done it.” ... Which still leaves much to say about the play. First, that it’s jolly hard work, because you’re not watching a play you’re sort of solving one – interpreting it ... And you suddenly realise you’re having a damn fine time doing it. It’s a bit like Tom Sawyer getting paid by the other kids for painting the fence; Mr Henderson has put you to work and he’s getting paid for it. [more] |
 reviewed by Peter Hawes 9 Sep 2008 |
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One of the great existential plays Kemp is summoned to the deathbed of his aunt. He arrives, he vigils, she dies. Even such is life. It’s not one of the great vigils. Aunt Grace is not so much on her deathbed as in it – where she remains for two years – and Kemp’s not the most gracious of invigilators; he throws tanties, he wallows maudlinly in his own past, he attempts her murder. She lives out her allotted span, materially assisted by his inept attempts to abridge it. [more] |
 reviewed by Peter Hawes 22 Mar 2009 |
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A splendidly explored dilemma SEEyD wades, Daniel-like, into the den of specious capitalism and intelligently, unerringly and gloriously boots the goddam lion in the nuts. Eeha! We’re back in those Brechtian days when theatre took up the Great Axe which the media’s double-jointed wrists were incapable of raising. SEEyD is like the crepitatious Radio Free Europe broadcasts into Eastern Europe during the Cold War ... [more] |
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reviewed by Peter Hawes 22 Mar 2009 |
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A splendidly explored dilemma SEEyD wades, Daniel-like, into the den of specious capitalism and intelligently, unerringly and gloriously boots the goddam lion in the nuts. Eeha! We’re back in those Brechtian days when theatre took up the Great Axe which the media’s double-jointed wrists were incapable of raising. SEEyD is like the crepitatious Radio Free Europe broadcasts into Eastern Europe during the Cold War ... [more] |
 reviewed by Peter Hawes 9 Jun 2009 |
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A beautifully written, produced and presented work of luminous satisfaction ... So we’re looking at mud-jungled, mist-wraithed, rotting baches on the puggy verge of a ghastly West Coast lake the colour of Darjeeling Breakfast, inhabited by – as we know without being told – the link between eel and dinosaur… And hell, the lights haven’t gone down yet. [more] |
 reviewed by Peter Hawes 13 Jul 2009 |
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A showcase of craziness with style A ‘three pig party’ is, at least to the rugby league islanders I met at such an event, a damn good knees-up. A three-encore play suggests just as good a night out. [more] |
 reviewed by Peter Hawes 13 Jun 2010 |
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From strange to surreal to insane to real Spiffing show! Best baby-tale in the last 2000 years. Several of the whining scribblers who also reviewed this play found it ‘slow in the beginning.’ Bollox ... The other slight censure was, as murmured in the bar later: “Oh, it was very good... but there was no humour.” BOLLOX! . [more] |
 reviewed by Melody Nixon (Lumiere) 28 Mar 2007 |
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Mad, provocative, silly ... Kissing Bone, on this week at BATS, will no doubt add more pages to the Rothwell = theatrical genius versus Rothwell = ordinary kinda guy who likes to shock debate. [more] |
 reviewed by Melody Nixon (The Lumiere Reader) 5 Apr 2007 |
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Filling in the blanks For Melody Nixon's Lumiere Reader review ... [more] |
 reviewed by Melody Nixon (The Lumiere Reader) 10 Apr 2007 |
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A gripping political thriller THOUGH framed as piece of political theatre about refugees, Two Brothers is less a discussion of refugee issues and more a psychological thriller meets examination of power relations. It is nonetheless a gripping and powerful tale. It goes someway to discuss the public apathy of wealthy nations and succeeds in illuminating the issue of power leading to corruption in today’s liberal ‘democracies’ ... [more] |
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