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Ghett Out. Easy to get into.

September 6th, 2010

Roots theatre, the long-suffering bastard child of West African storytelling and English farce, has finally come of age. And its adulthood is being ushered by one company: Stages Productions.

Hart in the right place, but with the wrong script

Backstage. Not so fun from out front.

May 19th, 2010

For Karl Hart’s fourth play, “Backstage”, to succeed, the show-within-the-show should be more of a failure.

Priming the pump for a creative wave?

The Plumber. Rebirth of a nation.

April 20th, 2010

Does ‘The Plumber’ in particular, and roots plays in general, deserve the unsavory reputation the supposed intelligentsia have given it?

He did what? With who?

Puppy Love. Oliver, with a twist.

April 14th, 2010

For those keeping count, Puppy Love is the fourth recent production to feature a May-December romance. Why are our playwrights preoccupied with this particular taboo?

Ferrell, Friel and McBride in "Land of the Lost"

Land of the Lost.

October 26th, 2009

“Land of the Lost” aims for the college fraternity humour that currently dominates American film comedies—where men in their 20s and 30s are stuck in a perpetual adolescence.

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