We know everything is screwed. Between looming environmental breakdown, the collapse of democracies around the world, plastic pollution, mass extinction, social inequality and poverty skyrocketing, and a mental illness epidemic – genuinely, what is going well? Our streets are haunted by austerity. Homicidal xenophobia is on the rise both nationally and at the heart of […]
Tom Stoppard’s Travesties is an absurd, comedic rollercoaster, not without its surprising and heart-warming, human moments. Striking a skilful balance between mocking and venerating each of the legendary characters – we watch Lenin, Joyce and Tzara grapple with the meaning and role of art amidst war and revolution. We experience this motley assortment of twentieth […]
David Leddy’s The Last Bordello plays fast and loose with the truth, reality, and his audience. Against the backdrop of 1970s Gaza, the inexperienced Mitri seeks to “make himself a man” to earn his brother’s approval. Stumbling into a brothel the night before a government- enforced closure, he finds himself in a world of debauchery […]