Parties and Perplexity
Lindsay Oldham previews The Birthday Party, showing in the Keble O’Reilly 23rd-26th November.
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Lindsay Oldham previews The Birthday Party, showing in the Keble O’Reilly 23rd-26th November.
Continue ReadingTo dimmed lighting and an intimidating tenor of chanting, the five cast members trickle onstage and kneel before us, arms raised, frozen. A gun shoots. They all collapse. This is the welcome we receive to their claustrophobic underground production, which, played out beneath the arched ceiling of the Frewin Undercroft, makes me feel slightly as […]
Continue ReadingThe action starts and we are called to attention by Stendhal, played by Jordan Waller, who is sitting at the table in front of the audience as though we are in a tutorial with him. Then he starts talking to us in a disconcertingly intimate manner: he returns our stares, comes up close, reasons with […]
Continue ReadingIn our weekly feature Who?, a writer speaks out for an underestimated group in our society. This week, Lindsay Oldham gives voice to the benevolent, intelligent computer of tomorrow.
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