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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…
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…
A scene from Svetlana Dimcovic’s production of The Potting Shed Graham Greene’s The Potting Shed has not been seen on London stages for the best part of four decades. A psychological drama about a long-buried family secret and, this being Greene, a loss of faith was written in 1957 and last performed in London 1971:…
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