Grey matter: Harvey Bassett reviews a digital installation from New Perspectives in the form of a ‘deluge’ of voices from a nursing home.
Harvey Bassett
Articles by Harvey Bassett
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
3 February 2018
Reviews
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.