Category: Play
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Review: 2:22 starring Cheryl; A Ghost Story that’s, ironically, human
2:22 achieves the most impressive feat in the horror genre: a satisfying ending. As applause subsides, I ask around “Did you guess the ending?” From hushed near whispers to bursts of enthusiasm, the answer is unanimously “no.” Further impressive, audiences are still surprised in this, 2:22’s 5th West End run. (I conducted the same informal…
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Review: Orlando starring Emma Corrin; Stylish but Self-conscious
Emma Corrin is a paper doll. One costume peels off as another is pasted on. Before settling into an identity, it gives way to the next. Orlando, Corrin’s character in the eponymous play, lives a life that spans over 300 years, traverses land and sea, and fluidly navigates gender. Corrin, ever the shape-shifter, effortlessly plays…
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Review: Hakawatis, Women of the Arabian Nights; Intimate Storytelling in Female Gaze at Shakespeare’s Globe
“The whole play is a female orgasm,” playwright Hannah Khalil reveals in a post-show Q&A. Earlier that night, the first “line” in Khalil’s new play, “Hakawatis, Women of the Arabian Nights” is an enthusiastic moan, the beginning of an intimate night of storytelling. “This isn’t the male orgasm that goes [draws fingers up to the…
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