Comments on: Review: Cruel Tales Of Youth (Queer Up North) http://www.whatsonstage.com/blogs/manchester/2009/05/23/review-cruel-tales-of-youth-queer-up-north/ Tue, 22 May 2012 20:15:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Xavier Etherington http://www.whatsonstage.com/blogs/manchester/2009/05/23/review-cruel-tales-of-youth-queer-up-north/#comment-12815 Xavier Etherington Sun, 25 Apr 2010 07:49:20 +0000 http://www.whatsonstage.com/blogs/manchester/2009/05/23/review-cruel-tales-of-youth-queer-up-north/#comment-12815 Now THAT IS what I call an insightful position on this subject. What I would advise though is speaking to other people involved in the scene and bring to light any other points of view and then update or create a new post for us to . I hope you'll take my advice, I'm looking forward to it! Try to cover off on some <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tStColZ8caA" rel="nofollow">graffiti characters</A> as well if possible, they're quite popular at the moment. Now THAT IS what I call an insightful position on this subject. What I would advise though is speaking to other people involved in the scene and bring to light any other points of view and then update or create a new post for us to . I hope you’ll take my advice, I’m looking forward to it! Try to cover off on some graffiti characters as well if possible, they’re quite popular at the moment.

]]> By: Peter Rivendell http://www.whatsonstage.com/blogs/manchester/2009/05/23/review-cruel-tales-of-youth-queer-up-north/#comment-8307 Peter Rivendell Sun, 24 May 2009 09:37:30 +0000 http://www.whatsonstage.com/blogs/manchester/2009/05/23/review-cruel-tales-of-youth-queer-up-north/#comment-8307 A review that manages to make the show sound much more exciting and enjoyable than it actually was... Cruel Tales of Youth was certainly visually striking, technically impressive and more or less lived up to its promise as 'theatre poetry' but I found the experience emotionally quite bleak. The lack of any kind of coherent narrative or real drama or sense of connectedness between the performers - or the audience - left a show that was interesting to listen to, occasionally stunning to look at but that said nothing much more than that some teenagers in some time-frozen European cityscape are dispossessed. I think we knew that. A review that manages to make the show sound much more exciting and enjoyable than it actually was… Cruel Tales of Youth was certainly visually striking, technically impressive and more or less lived up to its promise as ‘theatre poetry’ but I found the experience emotionally quite bleak.

The lack of any kind of coherent narrative or real drama or sense of connectedness between the performers – or the audience – left a show that was interesting to listen to, occasionally stunning to look at but that said nothing much more than that some teenagers in some time-frozen European cityscape are dispossessed.

I think we knew that.

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