Humour used too often as a substitute for perceptionLycra, jealousy and pubescent ambition are put under the spotlight in Clare Barron's provocative probe into the American competitive danci…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:04AM[SHARE]Celebrates multicultural diversity with a zingA break-dancing mini Michael Jackson, a transvestite Neptune, and a hero who wears his hubris as proudly as his gold-tipped trainers, are unconv…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:04AM[SHARE]As the manic, self-obsessed king, Rhys Ifans cuts an extraordinary presenceThe image of a raging, narcissistic tyrant, convinced that he can crush even death into oblivion, has all too many …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:42AM[SHARE]A fearlessly experimental, physically ingenious exploration of the textA raw pagan vitality animates this extraordinary story about a teenage boy wrestling with tumultuous emotions in the fa…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:04AM[SHARE]Infectious fun delivered by a cast bursting with boisterous talentGender-bending, confused identities, and hedonistic anarchy go together as naturally in summer Shakespeare as strawberries a…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:06AM[SHARE]The Faction brings fire and gumption to ShakespeareThe Faction's A Midsummer Night's Dream is a production in which women are more likely to kick ass than sleep with one " a muscular, mischi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:54PM[SHARE]Invigorating theatre: the 1971 Manhattan feminism vs Norman Mailer debate recreatedIconoclasm, orgasms, and rampant rhetoric are all on irrepressible display in The Wooster Group's recreatio…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:36AM[SHARE]Anna Deavere Smith shines her singular light on American inequality and systemic injusticeAnna Deavere Smith contains multitudes. As the solo performance artist recounts the testimonies she …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:18AM[SHARE]Isabelle Huppert brings her customary rigour to some notorious writingsIn an era marked by virtue-signalling, it's perhaps no surprise that Isabelle Huppert " a woman who has always gone …
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