With basslines beating like hot-red veins, Zombie! The Musical will chew you up and spit you out.
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N.B. This review features minor spoilers Achingly beautiful and gut-wrenchingly tragic, Tommy Murphy’s seminal queer play Holding the Man is…
While exciting and filled with large performances, the urge to force the dominos to fall causes the show to lose a strong thematic or aesthetic focus. The published synopsis lauds that the play “starts with a bang and races on like a runaway train.” If only it took a moment, especially at the start, to step on the brakes.
People say the Mona Lisa’s most memorable feature is her eyes that follow you around the room; that purposeful connection like the kind Kwa forms with her audience makes the difference between consuming and experiencing.
The new show by puppetry group Highly Strung is sharp, heartwarming and unapologetically unpretentious.
In pedestalling the objects on white fabrics and casing them away behind glass, Naqvi brings immense value to objects which are a part of her everyday life, creating them into symbols of her and her community’s strength.
While the play showcased the devastating realities of terminal illness, it ultimately highlighted how ‘wit’ can instil a sense of determination in desperate times.
Navigating through our collective grief is non-linear, joy is not the absence of grief nor is it the absence of criticality, and throughout the seven total venues participating in this year’s Biennale, we see how they try to expand on the complexity of celebration.
Despite its overwrought premise, director Jane Angharad manages to bring out the play’s more subtle themes through the intimacy she develops between the characters and the audience.
Whilst there were flaws in its execution, the production’s genuine attempt to bring something new to a play with such a fixed identity is admirable.
