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N.B-Nothing more spoilery than what was in the trailers “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry” – Adapted from Robert Burns’ To a Mouse Now 3 films bigger, and one year later, than when I last reviewed it, the MCU has reached a turning point in its life. It’s already a cinematic […]
Continue Reading✮✮✮ “Finished, it’s finished. Nearly finished.” The opening line of Beckett’s absurdist icon Endgame is a neat illustration of the play’s style: razor-sharp, black-as-hell wordplay and self-reference combined with an utterly bleak existential outlook. It is a titanic text to attempt to do justice, but Will Felton’s production with Fools and Kings Theatre attacks it […]
Continue Reading‘There’s a humanity in Endgame,’ director Will Felton tells me, ‘which is often overlooked.’ This is a bold claim to make – and if I hadn’t already seen what this production’s cast of four were capable of, I’d probably have scoffed. This Fools and Kings production of Endgame is every bit as unsettling as the best Beckett […]
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