Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
The Planktonic Players have brought a little of 1980’s Bronx to The Camden Fringe Festival. The wonderful set design starts as you walk up the stairs in The Camden Eye pub; original graffiti adorns the walls in-between classic 80’s record covers and posters. An authentic looking Bronx bar, complete with sleeping patron and a bored barman, is the setting of the players staging of John Patrick Shanley’s 1984 play ‘Savage in Limbo’.
A strong central performance from Grace Kennedy as Denise Savage leads the cast; quick witted, formidable and funny, Kennedy’s Savage is the first patron to enter the bar and has a hand in all proceedings from there in. Kennedy creates the perfect partnership with Gabrielle Curtis’ Linda Rotunda, if that is what you can call it! They snip, snide and full on argue with each other through out the evening, Curtis perfectly swinging...
The Planktonic Players have brought a little of 1980’s Bronx to The Camden Fringe Festival. The wonderful set design starts as you walk up the stairs in The Camden Eye pub; original graffiti adorns the walls in-between classic 80’s record covers and posters. An authentic looking Bronx bar, complete with sleeping patron and a bored barman, is the setting of the players staging of John Patrick Shanley’s 1984 play ‘Savage in Limbo’.
A strong central performance from Grace Kennedy as Denise Savage leads the cast; quick witted, formidable and funny, Kennedy’s Savage is the first patron to enter the bar and has a hand in all proceedings from there in. Kennedy creates the perfect partnership with Gabrielle Curtis’ Linda Rotunda, if that is what you can call it! They snip, snide and full on argue with each other through out the evening, Curtis perfectly swinging...
- 8/5/2012
- by Will Pond
- Obsessed with Film
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Chilean-born director Costanza Hola Chamy’s clever interpretation of Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan is currently on at The Rose Theatre and is not to be missed. In a nutshell, the play is about the life, trials and execution of Joan of Arc. Hola chose to put a modern spin on it and characterised St. Joan (Suzanne Marie) as the kind of punk chick you could see roaming the streets of Camden Town today. I found this choice to be an ingenious match for the rebellious spirit Joan has come to represent and surprisingly it didn’t clash with the 600 year old story being told on stage.
From the first scene, the hyper-energetic tone is set when we are greeted with rhythmic Brazilian music and the hilariously expressive fatigue-clad Roberta (Cornelia Baumann) who dances and jogs her way across the stage creating the minimal set of...
Chilean-born director Costanza Hola Chamy’s clever interpretation of Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan is currently on at The Rose Theatre and is not to be missed. In a nutshell, the play is about the life, trials and execution of Joan of Arc. Hola chose to put a modern spin on it and characterised St. Joan (Suzanne Marie) as the kind of punk chick you could see roaming the streets of Camden Town today. I found this choice to be an ingenious match for the rebellious spirit Joan has come to represent and surprisingly it didn’t clash with the 600 year old story being told on stage.
From the first scene, the hyper-energetic tone is set when we are greeted with rhythmic Brazilian music and the hilariously expressive fatigue-clad Roberta (Cornelia Baumann) who dances and jogs her way across the stage creating the minimal set of...
- 5/28/2012
- by MJ Palleschi
- Obsessed with Film
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