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Friday, March 10, 2017

Bunny review at White Bear Theatre, London " 'an uneven revival' by Lauren Mooney

It’s been seven years since Jack Thorne’s one-woman play Bunny premiered in Edinburgh, where it won a Fringe First. Thorne has gone

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Saturday, December 10, 2016

Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag review at Soho Theatre, London " 'filthy, funny and vital' by Lauren Mooney

Months after the acclaimed television adaptation, and weeks after the tickets for this run were snapped up in a record-breaking ten minutes,

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Saturday, December 3, 2016

Peter and the Starcatcher review at Royal and Derngate Theatre, Northampton " 'joyous' by Lauren Mooney

After a lumbering first half, Peter and the Starcatcher rears into brilliant life. It's great when it gets going " a beautiful

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Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Emma Rice tried to shake up the Globe. Sadly it's chosen to cling to the past | Lauren Mooney by Lauren Mooney

The theatre's decision to dispense with its groundbreaking artistic director reflects a mindset that resists change " especially when a woman is driving itIt was announced yesterday that Emm…

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Friday, June 3, 2016

Lauren Mooney: Privileged of today will be employers of tomorrow by Lauren Mooney

One of London’s premier new-writing theatres is seeking a resident assistant producer. As well as working on various different productions, including development and

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Friday, May 13, 2016

Do you pretend to enjoy Pinter? Shakespeare? Stoppard? You're not alone | Lauren Mooney by Lauren Mooney

You've probably been in a pub with a noisy expert and felt the need to say you like a playwright you don't. That's exactly what stops us engaging with theatreThe new artistic director of the…

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Friday, August 8, 2014

Edinburgh feature: The Taiwan Season " "We try to reveal all the sorrows of the performer" by Lauren Mooney

Jostling for position amongst the huge range of companies working up at the Fringe are a set of newcomers " newcomers to the Festival, to the city, to Europe itself, in some cases leaving th…

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Saturday, August 2, 2014

Feature: Tom Basden on his play, Holes by Lauren Mooney

If you’ve been frequenting the Edinburgh Fringe long enough, there’s a chance you’ll be most familiar with Tom Basden as an Edinburgh Comedy Award (formerly the Perriers, n…

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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Feature: Young Everyman Playhouse " not doing things by halves by Lauren Mooney

The front wall of the newly rebuilt Liverpool Everyman Theatre feels like a statement of intent. It’s not often you can say that about a wall, but this one features portraits of 105 pe…

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Sunday, April 13, 2014

Incoming preview: Tin Shed Theatre by Lauren Mooney

Tin Shed Theatre Company is busy, busy, busy. I speak to Company Director Georgina Harris on a chance free day between school tours of An Inspector Calls and Of Mice and Men, educational wor…

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Monday, March 10, 2014

Incoming preview " Kill The Beast by Lauren Mooney

Kill the Beast burst onto the fringe theatre scene last year with a spatter of blood and a porcine squeal. Its debut show, The Boy Who Kicked Pigs, based on Tom Baker's novella of the same n…

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Monday, February 10, 2014

Feature: Spotlight on Nir Paldi " "I was just telling stories" by Lauren Mooney

Meeting Nir Paldi upstairs at the Southbank Centre, I’m not entirely convinced I’m going to recognise him. After all, the last time I saw him, five months ago at the Edinburgh Fr…

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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Review: The Body of an American, The Gate by Lauren Mooney

It would seem that in the 37 years since Susan Sontag published On Photography " her collection of essays discussing, amongst other things, the ‘outsider’ status of the photog…

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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Feature: Calm Down, Dear " feminism fights back by Lauren Mooney

Earlier this year, when Brian Logan and Jenny Paton opened applications for the annual Sprint festival, they were struck by the sheer number that dealt with a recurrent theme: those “t…

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Saturday, August 17, 2013

Edinburgh Fringe Review: 4.48 Psychosis by Lauren Mooney

(2/5 stars) In this re-imagining of Sarah Kane’s famous play, first performed posthumously in 2000, DEM Productions attempts to turn this dark, highly-stylised swan song into something…

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Friday, August 16, 2013

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Ten Out of Ten by Lauren Mooney

(4/5 stars) At a time when young people across the country are experiencing agony or ecstasy as a result of something as ultimately trivial as tests and grades, Toot has created a bizarre, s…

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Edinburgh Fringe Review: Not the Messiah by Lauren Mooney

(4/5 stars) Graham Chapman died of cancer in 1989, just shy of the celebrations for the twentieth anniversary of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. In this one man show written by Tom Craws…

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Edinburgh Fringe Review: Kabul by Lauren Mooney

(5/5 stars) Kabul, which bears the name of the troubled city in which it is set, is both the story of a place and something far more personal. Set in 1997 when, during the civil war in Afgha…

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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Melodic Dystrophy by Lauren Mooney

(2/5 stars) The puppetry impresses far more than the writing in this Queen Mary Theatre Company show about a successful actor who is diagnosed with a rare, fast-acting form of muscular dystr…

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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Fox by Lauren Mooney

(3/5 stars) This new adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox sees a young company waver between making a children’s show and, an important distinction, simply adapting a chil…

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Edinburgh Fringe Review: Captain Amazing by Lauren Mooney

It isn't easy to juggle the demands of being a superhero with marriage, fatherhood and a job at B&Q. Bruntwood prize-winning writer Alistair McDowall excels in this intelligent and warml…

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Edinburgh Fringe Review: Head Over Heels in Saudi Arabia by Lauren Mooney

(2/5 Stars) Dr. Maisah Sobaihi, an academic who works at a University in Jeddah, wants to challenge our perceptions about life in Saudi Arabia. Saudi-born but American-accented, having spent…

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Edinburgh Fringe Review: Wardens by Lauren Mooney

(3/5 Stars) In this new play by Darren Richman and Garrett Millerick, a group of traffic wardens, a Police Community Support Officer and a chemist are not so much 'first against the wall whe…

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Edinburgh Fringe Review: Pigeon English by Lauren Mooney

(4/5 stars) This fast-paced adaptation of Stephen Kelman's acclaimed novel is the perfect showcase for its young cast's diverse range of talents. Harri, played by Daniel C. Johnson, guides t…

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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Edinburgh Fringe Review: The Collision of Things by Lauren Mooney

(2/5 Stars) London can be a vast and terrifying city for the uninitiated " but after coming down for the funeral of the father he never knew, Tom decides to stay put. Some might say that thi…

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Edinburgh Fringe Review: Stuart: A Life Backwards by Lauren Mooney

(4/5 stars) Stuart Shorter was a troubled man in so many complicated, inter-connected ways, from drug abuse to homelessness to violent episodes, that it must have been almost impossible to p…

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Monday, August 12, 2013

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Specie by Lauren Mooney

(4/5 Stars) In a not-too-distant future, where technological advances have created total gender fluidity, people transition between sexes " referred to as “becoming New” " as man…

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Edinburgh Fringe Review: Sheriff Wayne and the Sundance Cave by Lauren Mooney

(2/5 stars) Children's theatre isn't easy and it's naïve to assume that a littler audience will automatically be a kinder one. Lincoln Company is about 75% of the way to a properly good k…

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Edinburgh Fringe Review: Bridge to an Island by Lauren Mooney

(1/5 stars) An angry young woman is spending New Year's Eve alone for unspecified, but presumably quite miserable, reasons. She’s oddly misanthropic when it comes to real people, but l…

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Edinburgh Fringe Review: Cartwheels by Lauren Mooney

(2/5 stars) Cartwheels is a play of two halves. Not temporally, in the usual way, but quite literally: the stage is divided into two separate, equal halves. On the left is the Dining Table o…

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Edinburgh Fringe Review: Vessel by Lauren Mooney

(3/5 stars) A storm in the darkness, the roar of the sea and a boy in the water: Vessel's opening moments set the tone for the physical theatre sections that return throughout, as well as th…

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