A truly great play is one that stays with you. Sure, theatre can often be a fun way to spend an evening with whimsical entertainment, grabbing a few beers and a few laughs, but the plays that you remember, the ones that you still look back on fondly ten years later, are the ones that … Continue reading Webster brings empathy, and energy, in Hyde Park’s ‘Wakey Wakey’
Hyde Park’s ‘The Wolves’ is a warm and witty wonder
For many of us, our teenage years are frightening, hormone-filled affairs, full of desperation and insecurity. This time of life is a common subject for media, but it's surprising how much of this media fails to capture the actual teenage experience. So much of it is imbued with sunny, nostalgic optimism, saccharine sentimentality, or sexy misadventure, that it fails to capture the … Continue reading Hyde Park’s ‘The Wolves’ is a warm and witty wonder
Gothic romance gets a feminist twist in Hyde Park’s ‘The Moors’
A gloomy mansion on the moors, two mysterious sisters, a hidden relative in the attic, deceit in the air: these are all elements of good gothic horror, and it's from this skeleton that writer Jen Silverman builds her bizarre feminist fable, The Moors, now given a bold, intelligent production at Hyde Park Theatre. Part of … Continue reading Gothic romance gets a feminist twist in Hyde Park’s ‘The Moors’
‘The Flick’ is an authentic, humorous love-letter to a dying art
In recent years, Hyde Park Theatre, and director Ken Webster, have been at their best when producing the works of Annie Baker, with pieces like Body Awareness, Circle Mirror Transformation and The Aliens becoming some of their most successful and popular pieces to date. It was only a matter of time, then, before they picked … Continue reading ‘The Flick’ is an authentic, humorous love-letter to a dying art
‘The Realistic Joneses’ is a challenging but intriguing postmodern comedy
The marriage of Hyde Park Theatre and the work of Will Eno is a marriage made in heaven. The deceptively deep, darkly comic plays that Eno writes are the perfect fit for a theatre like Ken Webster's, as they're the kind of offbeat contemporary comedies that have been their bread and butter for years. With … Continue reading ‘The Realistic Joneses’ is a challenging but intriguing postmodern comedy
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