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World Premiere Merchant Culture Svetlana Dimcovic’s revival is propulsive, engrossing and boldly characterised. Time Out What’s the power that sucks people into a financial market bubble, and what’s the human cost of the fallout? Callum, a charity worker, joins the ranks of a hedge fund; he is forced to make painful choices and transforms as…
Winner of a Fringe First 2014 award, this is a brilliant two hander about Scottish independence and a Minister’s wish to speak off message but more truthfully to the people of a newly independent Scotland. I enter the Traverse, as always, making directly for the bar to order an espresso. Only a handful of people…
What do you keep in your potting shed? Trays of neatly bedded seedlings? Defunct household gadgets that you hope to throw away one day? Or a dark and deadly secret that has ripped your family in two? For the Callifers, the family under scrutiny in Graham Greene’s rarely performed 1958 play, it is the latter.…
The last time Graham Greene’s 1957 play ‘The Potting Shed’ was performed in London, in 1971, the cast included that Peter Pan of pop, Cliff Richard. Both star and play have fallen from fashion and in both instances Christianity seems to have something to do with it. Cliff’s cuddly evangelism turned off younger audiences. And…
The answer is James Callifer, the estranged son in Graham Greene’s 1958 drama The Potting Shed. This fascinating rarity, not seen in London since 1971, is now given a gripping, lucid revival by Svetlana Dimcovic. Speaking as a scarred survivor of Sir Cliff’s Heathcliff, I’m at a loss to imagine how he coped with the…
This revival of an obscure 1958 play by Graham Greene is part of a season of rediscovered British works at the Finborough — which, incidentally, now boasts a new wine bar. The play has not been performed in London since 1971; improbably, that staging featured Cliff Richard in the lead. It’s a psychological drama which…
Svetlana Dimcovic is a bilingual Anglo-Serbian theatre director and translator. She has translated a number of plays from Serbian into English, which she has then gone on to direct. She has also directed a great deal of drama from Finland, Lithuania and Slovenia in translation. Here she tells us about the challenges of presenting foreign…