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Harvey Bassett



Articles by Harvey Bassett


Review: House Mother Normal at Brighton Festival (online)
9 May 2021
Reviews • Brighton • National • Reviews

Review: House Mother Normal at Brighton Festival (online)

5-31 May
By Harvey Bassett

Grey matter: Harvey Bassett reviews a digital installation from New Perspectives in the form of a ‘deluge’ of voices from a nursing home.


Review: Is Now A Good Time? at Tobacco Factory Theatres
24 March 2021
Reviews • Bristol • National

Review: Is Now A Good Time? at Tobacco Factory Theatres

17-21 March, then touring
By Harvey Bassett

Office romance: Harvey Bassett reviews Out of Chaos’s interactive telephone show masquerading as a market research questionnaire.


Review: Wife at Kiln Theatre
7 June 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe

Review: Wife at Kiln Theatre

By Harvey Bassett

There’s a “thrilling cumulative power” to Samuel Adamson’s Ibsen-inspired study of queer relationships through successive decades.


Review: Séancers at Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Brighton
20 May 2019
Reviews • Brighton • National

Review: Séancers at Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Brighton

16-17 May
By Harvey Bassett

Ritual resurrection: Henry Gleaden writes on Nigerian-American performance artist Jaamil Olawale Kosoko’s heady, emotional summoning of the Black dead.


Review: The Noises at Old Red Lion Theatre
6 April 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe

Review: The Noises at Old Red Lion Theatre

By Harvey Bassett

‘Dogs are natural clowns’: Dog-person Henry Gleaden writes on Jacqueline Saphra’s monologue, told from the perspective of a family pet.


Review: Cuckoo at Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Brighton
15 February 2019
Reviews • Brighton • National

Review: Cuckoo at Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Brighton

12 February
By Harvey Bassett

Untranslatable: Henry Gleaden writes on Jaha Koo’s melancholy performance about the personal impact of South Korea’s financial crisis.


Review: The War of the Worlds, New Diorama
12 January 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe

Review: The War of the Worlds, New Diorama

By Harvey Bassett

‘A fast-paced tour of fake news, guided by an otherworldly ensemble of mischievous shapeshifters’: Henry Gleaden reviews Rhum and Clay’s adaptation of Orson Welles’s radio play


Review: A Pair of Pantos at The Marlborough, Brighton
22 December 2018
Reviews • Brighton • National

Review: A Pair of Pantos at The Marlborough, Brighton

18-20 December, then touring
By Harvey Bassett

Panto pedagogy: Hester Chillingworth’s pantomime ditches dodgy gags and tired tropes for a transpositive alternative.


Review: The Village at Theatre Royal Stratford East
21 September 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe

Review: The Village at Theatre Royal Stratford East

Friday 7 September - Saturday 6 October 2018
By Harvey Bassett

Revolutionary acts: Henry Gleaden on Nadia Fall’s alarmingly current-feeling first show as AD at Theatre Royal Stratford East.


Review: Dust at the Soho Theatre
28 February 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe

Review: Dust at the Soho Theatre

20 February – 17 March 2018
By Harvey Bassett

Flank, thigh and back: Henry Gleaden reviews Milly Thomas’s one-woman play about the aftermath of a suicide


Review: The Shape of the Pain at Battersea Arts Centre
25 February 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe

Review: The Shape of the Pain at Battersea Arts Centre

20 February – 10 March 2018
By Harvey Bassett

An attempt to articulate: Henry Gleaden reviews Rachel Bagshaw and Chris Thorpe’s show about Complex Regional Pain Syndrome.


Review: Boys at Vault Festival 2018
13 February 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe

Review: Boys at Vault Festival 2018

7 - 11 February 2018
By Harvey Bassett

I’ve met these blokes before. Each of them a different type of man: Henry Gleaden responds to Boys at Vaults.


Review: Mary’s Babies at Vault Festival
3 February 2018
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Review: Mary’s Babies at Vault Festival

By Harvey Bassett

The pull of blood: Maud Dromgoole’s play explores the lives shaped by a very prolific sperm donor.


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