Tag: Rebecca Hurst

The Women of Troy by Euripides & This Cookie May Contain Nuts by Tracey Hitchen, Orange Tree Theatre, 9 June 2001

This was an unusual double-bill of short plays at the Orange Tree, both women-oriented, I think directed by some young women on an apprenticeship scheme.

We rather enjoyed it.

The Women Of Troy is hardly a bundle of laughs. But the second play was an interesting take on modern web-based technologies, quite prescient I should think from the turn of the century if we were to see it again today.

I can only find one local review, which rated the evening pretty highly:

Troy Cookies Troy Cookies 15 Jun 2001 Barnes, Mortlake and Sheen Times (London, London, England) Newspapers.com

We’ll have gone to Don Fernando’s after that three hour epic and had a pretty late night.

We went to David Highton’s 50th the next day. Gosh we were troopers back then.

Logic by Stephanie McKnight, Chelsea Theatre, 12 February 2000

For a brief while, that little theatre in Chelsea, near World’s End, was one of our favourite fringe places. Janie and I rated this piece as:

Very good.

Small scale and domestic – that tiny theatre didn’t lend itself to scale works, this one, like the other plays we saw there during that period, held our attention, entertained us and made us think.

Not much in the way of formal reviews to be found, but here goes. Rachel Halliburton in the Independent was sufficiently convinced to write it up briefly:

Logic Halliburton IndependentLogic Halliburton Independent 26 Feb 2000, Sat The Independent (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com

Lyn Gardner in The Guardian also gave it the short but sweet review treatment:

Logic Gardner GuardianLogic Gardner Guardian 17 Feb 2000, Thu The Guardian (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com