Decade
From: Tuesday, 19th January 2010
To: Saturday, 23 January 2010
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Our Review:
22 January 2010
Decade is an enterprising and admirable attempt by ten new writers to represent the 'Nougties' through a series of ten ten-minute plays. Theatre 503 mask these vignettes with a space conjured by ten different artists. Though these offer some interesting visual responses to key moments through the decade, the graffiti, which to all intents and purpose it is, makes it more Dalston loft than artistic statement.
The writing, direction and performances deviate between very good and poor, but the ideas are bold. Anything that so soon into the new decade (has anyone thought of a potential moniker yet?) offers such a wide ranging social critique, rather than a remembrance, lends towards a degree of introspection. Whether or not the plays provide consolation for our fears, frustrations and inadequacies during this extraordinary decade is another matter.
Worthy of note, 2000 is set during a fancy dress house party on the eve of the millennium. A sardonic Johnny (Jamie d...
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April de Angelis (Author)
David Eldridge (Author)
Fraser Grace (Author)
Richard Marsh (Author)
Rex Obano (Author)
Phil Porter (Author)
Lou Ramsden (Author)
Nimer Rashed (Author)
Amy Rosenthal (Author)
Beth Steel (Author)
Paul Robinson (Director)
Tim Roseman (Director)
Gene David Kirk (Director)
Anthony Biggs (Director)
Jessica Beck (Director)
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