Martin Esslin coined the term “the theatre of the absurd” to mark the plays of Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet and Harold Pinter, where they may have not necessarily seen themselves cojoined.
As the writers and indeed the players all …
I found this hard going. I am sure that it didn’t help that I had seen Neil Simon’s ‘The Odd Couple’ the night before. Samuel Beckett’s play just felt so bleak and heavy part of me just wanted to exit …
This is not the first time Judy Davis and Colin Friels have had an encounter with August Strindberg. In 1983 at the Old Nimrod Theatre (now the Stables Theatre) they performed together in Miss Julie. By all accounts it …
Featured photo- Colin Friels as Frank Hardy. Pic by Brett Boardman.
This is a serious and challenging play. It runs for nearly two hours without interval and consists of four monologues that go roughly for half an hour each. This …