Friday night
Reverence - A site-sympathetic tale of Abelard and Heloise
An indoor promenade performance, at the site of the new Southwark Playhouse under London Bridge Station.
We donned cowls as students entering an order as God's representatives on Earth. We were taken around the dark, damp spaces spying on Abelard and Heloise and the people around them. Glorious production. Scary. Emotional. Wonderfully dark imagery.
www.goatandmonkey.co.uk
Monday night
The Bacchae by Euripides, a new version of The Bacchae by David Greig
Ok, it starts with Alan Cummings* arse on show...can it get any better? Oh yes, it can! It goes from outrageously camp musical to dark Greek tragedy and gets away with it. The god of dance and wine, Dionysus as indulgent transvestite unleashing uncontrollable female sexuality and cruelty was just wonderful.
www.lyric.co.uk
* I've always had a bit of a soft spot for Alan Cumming since he wrote and played Sebastian Flight in The High Life (Pif, paf pof!).
1 comment:
Saw The Bacchae in Edinburgh and am afraid that even Alan's bum couldn't have persuaded the old ladies in the audience to flee to the mountains and become debauched lesbians... hmm! There was no interval, but they did give out free paper fans - not sure if it was because the air-conditioning had broken down or because we were supposed to be overwhelmed with lust.
Being a middle-aged old pervert I would have been happy with a choc-ice...!
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