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The New World Order, by Harold Pinter

The New World Order
Part of The Barbican autumn season 2011
at Shoreditch Town Hall, 16 November to 11 December

by Harold Pinter
directed by Ellie Jones

Five stars "A shattering experience that brings Pinter's world directly home" - Michael Billington The Guardian.

five stars "The sense of being trapped within a brutal state machine builds and intensifies during  this brilliant site-specific production by Hydrocracker" - Jane Hughes, The Independent

Four stars "Now this is what I call site-specific...Pinter, the master
of menace, would surely have revelled in this." - Fiona Mountford, Evening Standard

Four stars "A brilliant balance of wit and coercion. An unnerving but thrilling evening."
Dominic Maxwell, The Times

Four stars "Site-specific theatre is rarely as urgent
or as disquieting as it is in the hands of Hydrocracker" Catherine Love, Spoonfed

Four stars "An artistic triumph" - Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

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Shakespeare a la Carte

Shakespeare à la Carte

Canterbury Festival  October 24-26, 2011
Devised by Jonathan Cullen and Richard Hahlo

 

"Delicious... a clever gem of a production”
Miriam O’Reilly, Pick of the Week, BBC Radio 4

Tragedy, Comedy, History, Pastoral, Pastoral-Comical, Historical-Pastoral, Tragical-Historical, Tragical-Comical-Historical-Pastoral. All served with vittles, verse and a side order of iambic pentameter.

 

 

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March-April 2011

 

The Consultant, by Neil Fleming

The Consultant

by Neil Fleming

Theatre503, March 23-April 16, 2011

Faust meets The Office in this black tale of corporate and personal disaster

three stars "Intriguing and gripping theatre" - The Times
three stars "Sharply funny satire" - The Guardian
"Fleming is a lively, pleasingly cynical writer" - Time Out
"Genuinely funny" - The Stage


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