... your spuds SPICE OF LIFE Gorta JOHN DUNNE's play Gorta is set at the beginning of the Irish Potato Famine, when rich landlords grabbed all the good potatoes from a blighted harvest, the English were only visible in uniforms and the Irish poor were left ...

... the strength of its musical compositions which are lively, tune ful and witty. The introduction of the potato into England is the excuse^ for a potato song, the lyrics of which show the authors at their most inventive. The story concerns Viola, Lady-in-Waiting ...

... FESTIVAL Theatre director Patrick Garland has been prais ed for bringing a socialist play dealing with the political hot potatoes of economic crisis and unemployment to his bastion of middle-class playgoing. The 21st annual festival season opens with ...

... Even the indoor scenes retain a flavour of the earthy surroundings as the stage is thickly covered in soil representing the potato fields. Joint Stock Theatre Group has just returned with Caryl Churchill's Fen from a successful season in New York which ...

... of events, a great deal of furniture is overturned and books dismembered, not to mention the destruction of costumes and potatoes. Chris Whittingham plays Van Weyden, the literary critic rescued from drowning by a sealer captain and then plunged into ...

... shows when a dippy female terrorist interrupts this suburban re verie by bludgeoning his wife to death with a packet of frozen potato croquet tes. Said terrorist reveals her mission given to her by an angel with a North of England accent is to assassinate ...

... lona Grant showing off new woman as a crisp control-freak. Gasping is good theatre, which puts a political and social hot potato on stage in a way that makes you laugh, squirm and occasionally gasp. Grelle White ...

... same time, showcases both the depth and despair of the human spirit, whether that be a song about the boredom of peeling potatoes, or the fear of being enlisted for transportation. This is an intelligent, sincere and necessarily serious attempt to keep ...

... woman- facing the future a solid and endearing portrayal of great skill. As her raunchy neighbour with an overweight couch potato for a husband, Christine Pritchard has the plum role of Dawn and gives a peach of a performance. Immaculate comic timing. ...

... and a set pared down to the bare minimum are all the props needed for this powerful, clean-lined tale, set during the Irish potato famine. Brighde Mullms' play pulls in many directions at once. It shifts between a starving Ireland and an America of ...

... Caterina exclaims Isn't that a parachute? The dynamic is elsewhere, with Franco watching Adriano weepin in the mud of his potato field and putting to him his unsettling question, why be unhappy like this be what your are. Adriano is awakened to his true ...

... in which Thatcher and Maxwell make appearances, and a map of Rome constructed by Mephistophilis from turnips, carrots and potatoes. The knowledge of Marlowe's original Faustus required to fully appreciate the play may be off putting to some, but this ...