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The Nether
- Review
- ★★★
- Edinburgh
- Checkpoint
- 31st Mar, 2017
Science Fiction isn't the most common genre you find on stage; ironic, really, since it was Karel Čapek’s 1920 play R.U.R. which gave us the word “robot”, for example. Is it because we expect our “sci-fi” to come with spectacular (or, alternatively, laughably cheap) special effects difficult to produce (even now) live, on a nightly basis? Or that, somehow, most people believe that scientific speculation simply isn’t “serious” enough for “proper” theatre?By choosing to perform The Nether, Edinburgh-based Theatre Paradok capably remind us that science fiction doesn’t require the OTT visuals, and is perfectly capable of working with some really big and disturbing ideas...
Mary Barnes
- Review
- ★★★
- Edinburgh
- Checkpoint
- 25th Apr, 2016
As a playwright, David Edgar long ago sped past the number of plays written by Shakespeare, but it’s fair to say that – while often making a big impact at the time – not many of his works have since entered the national repertory...
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