MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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God botherer with a memorable mission
GORDON PARSONS sees a production of Tamburlaine which brilliantly captures the protagonist's sacrilegious assault on the notion of a divine being
Outstanding: Jude Owusu (left)
[Pic: Ellie Kurtz]
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
MICHAEL BOYD, who ran the RSC for nine years from 2003, returns to Stratford with a play posing particular problems for modern audiences and makes it speak directly to them with the company’s most assured production in recent times.
Through his dramas, Christopher Marlowe — anarchist, atheist and sexual free-wheeler — delivers the ultimate question of Renaissance humanism. In a world without gods, can man become his own deity?
Master of the mighty line, Marlowe’s language has little of Shakespeare’s fluidity and less of his variety. Nor, driven by insatiable ambition, do his tragic heroes have the questing ambiguity characteristic of the Bard’s protagonists.
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