Reviews by Sophielle
Gibb Rishes Songologue
Sophielle
Gibb Rishes Songologue is one of the strangest and most engaging things you'll ever see. I went after an exam, trudging through the rain to get to the Jam Factory, doubting every second that it was a ...
13 years ago
Gibb Rishes Songologue
Café Obaasan
Sophielle
The crew of Café Obaasan had placed its set in a pretty garden nook of Christ Church, in between some scaffolding and some big old trees. It started to rain during the last ten or fifteen minutes of ...
13 years ago
Café Obaasan
Whenever I Get Blown Up I Think of You
Sophielle
I am very glad I went to see Whenever I Get Blown Up I Think Of You by Molly Naylor (http://mollynaylor.com/). Any squeamishness I had about treatments of collective national victimhood - like 7/7 - ...
13 years ago
Whenever I Get Blown Up I Think of You
After Troy
Sophielle
This is an incredible project – two plays, a decade or so apart, fused to provide a broader, kaleidoscopic insight into the brutalisation of the women of Troy by the ancient Greeks. After Troy was ...
14 years ago
After Troy
A Dream Play
Sophielle
In 1902, Strindberg wrote to his German translator: “Understand The Dream Play? ... Everything absurd becomes probable. People flit past and a few traits are sketched in, the sketches merge ... ...
14 years ago
A Dream Play
Fear And Misery in the Third Reich
Sophielle
Ben Martin and Olly Murphy's production Fear and Misery in the Third Reich (an original translation by Murphy of Furcht und Ellend, and a largely original interpretation of the anti-Nazi domestic ...
14 years ago
Fear And Misery in the Third Reich
Tamlane
Sophielle
Wadham college breeds good things: radicalism, queer festivals, and lately, the show Tamlane. Unlike some incarnations of the former two, however, every aspect of this stunningly high-quality ...
14 years ago
Tamlane
The Servants' Ball Blitzkrieg
Sophielle
The Servants’ Ball Blitzkrieg is an amalgamation of two plays about Zimbabwean independence, two student directors’ creative juices, a puppet maker’s expert fruits, the wild dreams of a ...
16 years ago
The Servants' Ball Blitzkrieg