Theatre
From the Vaults to the Stegi (Roof in Greek ;)) Michael’s been thrilled to make it a stage and give it his all. It been a thrilling ride and one that keeps on giving. We look forward to filling this page with more and more fabulous venues as time goes by.
Michael on Stage
Horse Country
Two clowns shoot the breeze, drinking bourbon and playing cards. While hunting the elusive nine of diamonds, they casually dissect capitalism, sea-lions, western culture, fishing, genocide, you know… stuff like that. Sam and Bob are not so much waiting for…
Kin Baby
“Don’t make children, make a new species,” or, more accurately, “make partnerships, not offspring,” urges theorist Donna Haraway. The happening of visual artist Eva Giannakopoulos transforms Stegi into the club “Cosmogonia”, immersing us in a rave phantasmagoria where everything is…
Hell Yes I’m Tough Enough
Political leaders Ned Contraband and David Carter ruthlessly battle it out to get into government. Whether it’s propaganda, ridicule, hacking, leaking, bullying, blackmail, coalition or negotiation – no tactic is too low. Which party has the best pitch? Who do…
Counting Sheep
***** Broadway Baby ***** Ed Fest Magazine ***** British Theatre Guide **** Toronto Star **** Time Out **** WhatsOnStage **** The Times **** The Stage. The award-winning (Scotsman Fringe First, Amnesty International Freedom of Expression) theatrical sensation comes to…
Closer – Vienna’s English Theatre
Closer is the play that made Marber’s name as “the finest dramatist of his generation” and won him the Laurence Olivier and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards. It was filmed in 2004 starring Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Clive Owen…
The Fifth Column – Southwark Playhouse
Memories Prefer to listen to me instead? I will remember for the rest of my life our tune to the “Bandera Rosa!”, played at the beginning of the show. This song set the scene for a play that zipped along…
Bruises – Tabard
By Nadia Cavalle. Directed by Jean Claud -Fall It is about two best friends, whose journeys through life lead them in very different directions. It is about the struggle to forge our own identities within the confines of social expectations,…
The Dog, the Night and the Knife – The Arcola
A hot August night. M finds himself at the dead end of a dark and deserted street, where everything has decayed and time has stopped. Hurled into a nightmare world, where wolves prowl, hunger is everywhere, and nothing is quite…
A Hard Rain- Above the Stag
Kicked out of the military after a year in Vietnam, ‘Ruby’ rocks up in Greenwich Village in a rage and high heels and meets the street kid who will change his world. A Hard Rain, Jon Bradfield and Martin Hooper’s…
The Country – Camden Peoples Theatre
The Country by Martin Crimp is a darkly comedic classic that offers a window into a marriage suspended between reality and dreaming. Crimp’s contemporary dialogue shimmers with desperation, betrayal, lust, addiction, and corrosive delusion. The clashing accounts of each of…
Jekyll and Hyde – Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts & The Southwark Playhouse
Written and Directed by Jonathan Holloway. Wandering into the darkness of a Southwark back-alley, the respectable Utterson and decadent Enfield find a curious door, ajar. Enfield thinks he grasps the mystery beyond it, but to discover more, he and Utterson…
Flight – Brockley Jack
A melancholic and vivid representation of complex characters and situations. Visually and emotionally stunning, the performances were fantastic. Everything Theatre Driven by a fantastic script, edited and translated by Howard Colyer, and performed by a superb cast, this show was…