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Comedy shoots from the lip

... football shirt with the name Ferdinand on the back . Other performances are not as strong and two flashbacks to the history of slavery , with Ferguson as a branded and transported slave , while undeniably painful , feel out of place . Too talky at times , it ...

Published: Thursday 22 August 2002
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2553 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

Theatre The Bargain

... that it is impossible to pack a whole life into one dance . Between the Stones and the Stars on her mixed race heritage , on slavery and , on the mystery and joy in her African roots . It is too big a story to tell in one dance , but her dual identity is ...

Published: Thursday 05 April 2007
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2971 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

Chilling tales make one very black comedy

... seeks to provide just that – a step up to help young people reach their potential . Here its focuses on the days of black slavery , as part of Black History Month . Directed by Belinda Earle , the production draws on modern urban culture as well as historical ...

Published: Thursday 20 November 2003
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2830 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Theatre

... obsess over issues of racial and cultural , beyond reworking the original Uncle framing device as a school trip to a museum of slavery . The staging relies on a single set strewn with geometric shapes on which the assume conventional , operatic poses . It is ...

Published: Thursday 03 May 2007
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3187 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

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... 01843 292795 ) Vienna Festival Ballet ? The Nutcracker ( October 14 ) MIDDLESBROUGH Middlesbrough Theatre ( 01642 815181 ) Slavery ( October 17 ) MILTON KEYNES Campus ( 01908 324422 ) A Story ( to October 12 ) Milton Keynes Theatre ( 0870 060 6652 ) Adventures ...

Published: Thursday 11 October 2007
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7071 | Page: 42 | Tags: none

Opera

... include an Italian partisan number , a sea shanty , multiple nursery rhymes and a superb rendition of Take This Hammer , an slavery song . The quality reminds us that our most vulnerable unhoused are often immigrants or asylum seekers . Alas , the show runs ...

Published: Thursday 26 July 2007
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2914 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

Theatre

... episode , yet the play remains very much a . It frequently shocks , it asks some searching questions , but it rarely grips . Slavery and the slave trade hardly come across as an accepted , unquestioned part of life . Israel Oyelumade brings and a worthwhile ...

Published: Thursday 17 May 2007
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4080 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

Opera

... book in England ) , though the climax relates not to new found love , but with a bicentennial nod to the 1807 Abolition of Slavery Act . potential here in the clash of Regency Windsor and the black underclass , and in jazz band as opera orchestra , but ...

Published: Thursday 19 July 2007
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3845 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

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... ge at the Patrick Centre ( 0121 689 3040 ) Flatfeet 2007 ( October 27 ) Drum ( 01213 332444 ) In His Shadow ( October 25 Slavery ( October 26 ) Hippodrome ( 0870 730 1234 ) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby , Parts I and II ( to October 27 ...

Published: Thursday 25 October 2007
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7308 | Page: 37 | Tags: none

Theatre Coram Boy Olivier , London November 22 Author : Jamila Gavin , adapted by Helen Edmundson Director : Melly

... theatre seen in a long time . I cried , laughed and gasped – within a single minute . in a murky 18 th world of infanticide , slavery and child abuse counterpointed with the recent foundation of Thomas relatively foundling hospital and the musical outpourings ...

Published: Thursday 14 December 2006
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7956 | Page: 24 | Tags: none