I wasn’t sure what I was going to make of Dickie Beau’s one-man show Showmanism: A Concise Histrionic of Performance, directed by Jan-Willem Van Den Bosch at London’s Hampstead Theatre. I knew very little about the show before it started, apart from it being a one-person show (which can sometimes be quite disappointing) and that …
Tag: Verbatim Theatre
The Laramie Project, by Moises Kaufman and the Members of the Tectonic Theater Project–1 Apr. 2018
The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater Project is an amazing, gut wrenching play. It is documentary theatre, built around the murder of Matthew Shephard in 1998 in Laramie, Wyoming. Matt was a university of Wyoming student who was brutally beaten by two locals and left tied to a fence post in …
Phillip Zapkin 