Theatre
GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS
King's Theatre. Edinburgh, until Sun 20 Jan 000
The year began well at the Lyceum. with John Dove's superb All My Sena setting the picket-fence lawns of postwar USA afire in a manner that reminded us that Miller's message about the personal and political costs of capitalism is as inescapable today as it was in 1947. There followed another revival of a more recent. but equally compelling text about how systemic structures destroy our
personal. and even spiritual lives in ,. m , ‘ a ,, . , Daniel Kramer's production of . i m. . .. ,. , . Angela In America at the Citz. mm. m. y , .. .. , ., . But there was scope for new ; . . z . : g. , , , . ' "‘ ' " . .t'
work as well. with Dundee Fiep’s sweetly engaging. and sometimes
socially forensic Sunshine on H... , , . . . . , 1, .l ,
Lelth bringing all the joy and ; Ti,» {" o ". l ' i .
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Proclaimers onto the stage
through Stephen Greenhorn's m,- .i r :r it i» .il ’l. aw in m script. So too. Alan Wilkins' tLlil‘r‘» l‘ir- law r w: Carthage Must be The Verdict iv r: r tar n Deatroyed,atakeontheancient ‘Il .lf,.t 23.: : v rm .i' world with uncanny resonances tr» v :m: ,' with contemporary parliamentary fistuiiluiw rii'x; w , v politics represented the bringing to an. mi..- .f -.r ‘.:' 1.» i (m , fruition ofatalentlong nurtured at - lit».- s..r~~r.t-_i .rwi
the Traverse. which added David i. www.mtui ii i fit." I o-va hurt: till. 'w Greig's Damascus. awitty :,' ‘.‘.’r,r'iil‘:i‘. .-.l z .r i ' examination of the geopolitical .2... .r v r. w .; r v' r i . ° ‘ dilemmas of the contemporary t . iv , Kw : r ' Middle East. to its portfolio of new i , n : ~ ,. t;. ° . : writing this year. Meanwhile. Stellar i.” .v mi w. 3 iv .v Quines was touring Scotland with *5 ' « 2 .r mm ‘ v r i
another bleak political allegory in 77" .
the shape of Torben Bett’s brilliant ° liirlir, .-.iti in w ~ »
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