The Star's critics ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARTIN HALL, MICHAL BONCZA, ANGUS REID reviews Holy Cow, One to One: John and Yoko, King of Kings, Panda Bear in Africa
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A brilliant dismantling of the American Dream
SIMON PARSONS applauds the energy and humour of a riveting show
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PATRICK JONES recommends a vital anthology from Afghan and Iranian poets where the political and personal fuse into witness-bearing and manifesto-making
WILL STONE is impressed by Hania Rani who is already making a name for herself in the male-dominated world of modern classical music
MIK SABIERS enjoys the theatrical feminist six piece who have a lot of fun that the audience feeds off as the set rolls on
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MARY CONWAY is disappointed by characters so un-nuanced as to be unreal, a stereotypical plot and a conceptual vampire
WILL STONE appreciates an artist who can swerve from industrial noise to clubby trance pop without missing a step
Sarah
The Coronet Theatre
ADAPTED from Scott McClanahan’s semi-autobiographical novel this amusingly dark dismantling of the American Dream is brilliantly performed by Jonathan Singer as Scott.
Addressing the audience directly, Scott opens his monologue by boasting that he is a skilled and experienced drunk driver. His description of a close call with a traffic cop veers from amusingly anarchical to childishly destructive, but the humour is undercut when he introduces the potential ramifications of his actions with his distressed children being his forgotten passengers.
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