inside: mind / body / spirit

Image: Aspasia Kralli as Teiresius

Theatre of Silence / Ex-Machina (Athens)

Seeking Oedipus (2008)
London International Mime Festival 09

• inside / outside
• the politics of family
• taboos
• the mind

Matt Trueman's Review:

http://carouseloffantasies.blogspot.com/2009/01/review-seeking-oedipus-london.html

Image: Toby Jones as Ivanov

National Theatre: Olivier
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

by Tom Stoppard and André Previn (1977/2009)

[a play for actors and orchestra] with the SOUTHbank SINFONIA

• inside / outside
• the politics of thought
• incarceration
• the body

See Mark Espiner's pointer towards the range of review opinions:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/jan/20/every-good-boy-deserves-favour

ALEXANDER

“If you don’t eat for a long time you start to smell of acetone, which is the stuff girls use for taking the paint off their fingernails. When the body runs out of protein and carbohydrate it starts to metabolise its own fat, and acetone is the waste product. To put this another
way, a girl removing her nail-varnish smells of starvation.

After two months you could have moved nail-varnish with my urine…”

Image: 'Tre Donne' by Koloman Moser (1914)

Inside Intelligence

Three Women by Sylvia Plath (1962)

Jermyn Street Theatre

• inside /outside
• the politics of birth
• voice poetics
• the word

Extract from: Three Women

"Who is he, this blue, furious boy,
Shiny and strange, as if he had hurtled from a star?
He is looking so angrily!
He flew into the room, a shriek at his heel.
The blue color pales. He is human after all.
A red lotus opens in its bowl of blood;
They are stitching me up with silk, as if I were a material."

Some interesting links:

• http://sylviaplathinfo.blogspot.com/2009/01/robert-shaw-director-on-sylvia-plaths.html
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/jan/09/three-women-jermyn-street-review
  
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/21/theatre
• http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article5477073.ece

Photo: Alastair Muir

Donmar West End: Wyndham's Theatre

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

• inside / outside
• the politics of identity
• melancholy
• love and death

The most fun, and perceptively-pitched, review out there:

http://westendwhingers.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/review-twelfth-night-donmar-west-end/

Photo: priya dave

Hayward Gallery

Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms

7 October 2008 - 18 January 2009

• inside / outside
• the politics of space
• the room
• a voice