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Architecting
Opens: 28/10/2009 Closes: 31/10/2009
The Arches, Glasgow
TEAM is an up-and-coming theatre company dedicated to evaluating and celebrating the experience of life in the Land of the Free. A four-part production, Architecting examines the past and contemplates the future of America, by reference to a range of sources, to get to grips with its present condition.
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MusicOMH“Numerous moments of humour stop it from being too overwhelming...” It’s not always as coherent as it could be but in the last few minutes, as Carrie (compellingly played by Libby King) delivers her final plea, everything else falls away and the audience are left listening to the cathedral-echo of her voice alone..
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The Independent“You emerge with a widened sense of life's possibilities...” It has brilliantly perceptive fun with the idea of a ghastly Speed-the-Plow-type American film producer planning a bogus politically correct modern movie of the book in which an ancestor of Martin Luther King will battle for better wages...
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The Telegraph“The sheer vitality of the production triumphs in the end...” Enthralling and infuriating, funny and tragic, intelligent and downright lunatic – it is impossible to have a simple response to this extraordinary production...
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The Times“Overlong, surreal, confusing, imaginative, cluttered and beautifully acted.” It would be easy to throw critical insults at this weird meditation on American destruction and almost equally disastrous reconstruction — especially as it ran ten minutes when it first appeared in New York and now lasts almost three hours...
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Financial Times“Quite a lot going on at once, not all of it is convincingly necessary...” The company, Frank Boyd, Jill Frutkin, Libby King, Lana Lesley, Jake Margolin and Kristen Sieh, are talented, fearless and funny; the questions they raise are pertinent and weighty. But they overload their wagon on this particular journey...
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this is london“Its cut-and-paste whirl of images are not for the faint of heart or head...” Corsets, cabaret, abstract dance routines, CCTV monitoring, thunder, a lot of weatherproofing material, scores of brown envelopes, some wilfully terrible jokes, energetic dressing-up, and mordant political satire...
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