Barbican
Gary Naylor
Well, this is uncannily topical, thought I, as the opening number, “Where Is the Justice?” took me back to Jurisprudence seminars and caught plenty of the newspapers screaming headlines that very morning, decrying the government's early release scheme.Unlike Mr Burnham, Light, a bright schoolboy but one still prone to seeing the world as comprising only good and evil, unshaded by complexity, gains the means to do something about it. Courtesy of a bored shinigami (a Japanese death demon) he comes across a notebook that, merely by writing a victim’s name therein, ensures that death follows in Read more ...
Rachel Halliburton
The erotic life of puppets – we discover in this show – is filled with intriguing possibilities that are denied to mere flesh and blood lovers. They can float up into the air when they kiss, glide backwards if they’re upset, and perform acrobatics that would be ambitious even for devotees of the Kama Sutra. In this revival of Greg Doran’s wonderful production – first devised in collaboration with Islington’s Little Angel Puppet Theatre in 2004 – such attributes do not divide them from the human experience but provide a wittily alternative expression of love’s highs and lows. In effect, Read more ...