Kelda holmes's Blog (3)

“A Fine Balance” ( a Tamasha production, back at the Hampstead Theatre for a limited run) is a tapestry of interwoven stories, set against the backdrop of 1975 India. The play follows the trials and tribulations of a handful of colourful characters, who are struggling with the hardships that the state of emergency is imposing upon them.

The play flits between different classes and castes, and between interior a

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I thought Landscape with Weapon written by Joe Penhall was funny, moving, intelligent and very topical. Each element of the production from the characterisation through to the staging and dialogue kept reinforcing the complexity of the subject. The subject being weapons and the way in which they can ultimately render people even more powerless. So although the protagonist has the vision to create a sophisticated new weapon his fear of the damage it can inflict in the wrong h… Continue

The David Glass ensembles revival of Gormenghast at the BAC was very cleverly executed, expertly switching between visual gags, richly symbolic imagery and synchronised sound sequences.

My favourite performances were by Philip Pellew, who is remarkably endearing and comic as flay the leggy servant and Elise De Grey as Fuschia the t

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