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Ubu and the Truth Commission

The Print Room, London (***)

© Luke Younge

© Luke Younge

South Africa’s Handspring Puppets are unmissable. War Horse notwithstanding, their work continues to inspire, in another league altogether though heaven knows the quality of puppeteering in this country has never been higher. So it’s a coup for Anda Winters’ Print Room to be staging this revival first produced in South Africa nearly two decades ago. Continue reading

The Cocktail Party

The Print Room at the Coronet, London ***

© Marc Brenner

© Marc Brenner

Marcia Warren (Julia) in The Cocktail Party. Photo by Marc Brenner

©Marc Brenner

It’s hard to know which to applaud more: the first revival in 25 years of T S Eliot’s mysterious `psychological comedy’, The Cocktail Party or the venue. Not having visited The Print Room since its decampment to the Coronet, the venue probably takes it by a short head. The former Victorian theatre (designed by leading architect W G R Sprague of Aldwych, Wyndhams, Novello and Noel Coward theatres fame) that became a cinema and is now reverting back to a theatre is a hauntingly beautiful space – wide proscenium, semi-circular acting space, perfect sight lines though acoustically a challenge. And all around, remnants of the old decoration, scrubbed back to brick-work including the bar area. Quite magical. Continue reading