Tag: review
-
MINI: Storm Lantern

Hi folks. So I’m trying something a bit different here from the usual article. Normally – when I write my ‘reviews’ – I encourage myself to write as much as possible, to explore every thought or feeling I had while watching a show, and even afterwards. The idea being less to give an assessment of…
-
REVIEW: Dissection Putain de Folle

The date is March 6th. I do a show at the Espérance Theatre in Geneva; a light comedy about a woman who takes a weather channel hostage, but – as it turns out – it’s part of a Candid Camera sort of thing. A boilerplate comedy – with the actual national weatherman on stage –…
-
REVIEW: Le Pays Lointain

Modern art – especially the abstract kind – is not my cup of tea, I confess, but I do respect it. I think it is important. When we are faced with the bizarre, the absurd, the incomprehensible, we have a gut reaction, and that reaction tells us something about ourselves. This – I believe –…
-
REVIEW: The Play That Goes Wrong

Critiquing a West End show – especially one as accomplished as The Play That Goes Wrong – definitely gives me “guy on couch criticizing Olympic athletes” vibes. (“HA! You call that a high jump? More like a high CHUMP!”) Nonetheless, here we go. The Play The Goes Wrong is a slapstick farce by Mischief Theatre…