I really enjoyed this short piece in the Studio at York Theatre Royal. The play was set in a Call Centre and this seemed like a really good idea because working in sales is like, or even is, putting on a performance. What happens here is that the edges of reality are slightly shifted so we…
Read more Dial (York Theatre Royal, 27th November 2009)
Outside in the town of Stratford it was raining every day. Inside, the Courtyard Theatre, there is a promise of sunshine as the sun streams through the doors and windows across a dimmed stage and auditorium. The play will commence in the dusky light of the moment when the day begins to turn to night and will…
Read more Twelfth Night (The Courtyard Theatre, w/c 9th November 2009)
There will be a change in the Doctor we kept getting told. What did we think before ‘The Waters of Mars’ aired? Possibly that the Doctor will give up and fail to save those he was sent to help. That his failure leads to tragedy on a grand scale and that he feels so bad he just gives up and because…
Read more Doctor Who, ‘The Waters of Mars’ (15th November 2009)
Having just moved Miching Malicho over here to Between the Acts, I have been a little bit more interested in what other Theatre/Culture blogs look like this week. In reading through some blogs I came across Cultural Tales of Two Cities. I really like the way that the blog focuses on the two cities of Manchester and London,…
Read more Thoughts on…Blogs this week
Over the last two weeks, I have seen two very different English Touring Theatre productions, one a comedy and the other a tragedy. The thing about English Touring Theatre is you do know you’re on safe ground, and the story will come first and I feel with these productions that there is little ambiguity. All of a…
Read more The Hypochondriac (York Theatre Royal, 28th October 2009) and The Grapes of Wrath (West Yorkshire Playhouse 4th November 2009)
Welcome to Between the Acts. Miching Malicho moves here to Between the Acts, and I will continue to write about Theatre, Literature, Art, Film and TV amongst other things. This space feels like a better space to continue the reflective writing started in Miching Malicho. In the future I would like to return to Miching…
Read more Between the Acts is the new blog for Miching Malicho