Mary Pollard
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Head Editor & Reviewer at @everytheatre - TYA specialist, British Puppet Guild President's Plate award, MA (hons) London's Theatre, freelance designer
London
Joined May 2009
#Review: The Wrong Trousers with Live Brass Band @Woolwich_works ★★★★ "It’s quite something to turn a familiar film inside out, allowing us to understand the inner workings of the score and celebrate the talent behind it." #theatre #woolwich
https://t.co/LyCUpGa26f
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#Review: Chotto Desh @sadlers_wells ★★★★★ "Beautifully performed and imaginatively realised, it continues to speak urgently to children about the courage to find one’s own path." #theatre #dance #TYA #familytheatre
https://t.co/G8OkJlyYoI
everything-theatre.co.uk
A masterful fusion of dance, storytelling and visual artistry that explores identity, family and belonging with heartfelt precision.
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#Review: Club Ninja @sadlers_wells ★★★ "Deserves credit for daring to be different – embracing darkness, silence and abstraction in a genre that often leans towards bright colours and noise." #theatre #TYA #dance
https://t.co/xRHZlOhPJx
everything-theatre.co.uk
A visually striking but uneven immersive dance piece for ages 3+, blending shadow play, movement and live music in a world of mysterious ninjas.
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#Review: Prayers for a Hungry Ghost @BarbicanCentre ★★★★ "This is a uniquely creative piece of storytelling that imaginatively fuses ideas of horror, spirituality, memory, and being." #theatre #Barbican #EastAsian
https://t.co/f53jxZWhpF
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#Review: Wendy and Peter Pan @BarbicanCentre ★★★ "An impressively spectacular show that puts Wendy at the heart of JM Barrie’s classic tale." #theatre #JMBarrie #PeterPan #Barbican
https://t.co/CW2vWCvBy3
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#Review: This Little Earth @ArcolaTheatre ★★★★ "It offers us ice walls to contain all the queries and doubts we have running through our confused heads and depicts that confusion in its very form." #theatre #offwestend #FlatEarthers
https://t.co/55SO1V35uQ
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#Interview: Jamie Hale and CN Lester talk Transpose: Subverse @BarbicanCentre from 12 November "The Transpose audience has always been a complete mixture of trans and non-trans people – and their support has been everything." #theatre #barbican
https://t.co/tpkAef95N2
everything-theatre.co.uk
Jamie Hale and CN Lester talk Transpose: Subverse at Barbican Pit
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#Review: Deciphers @coronettheatre ★★★ "The piece disentangles some difficult experiences to offer clarity through movement and ultimately feels generous and positive." #theatre #dance #offwestend
https://t.co/iPAuya5q7I
everything-theatre.co.uk
A deeply generous contemporary dance piece exploring parallel stories of the immigrant experience.
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#Interview: Takeshi Matsumoto on Club Ninja "My curiosity [...] started during the pandemic, when we all clapped for ‘invisible heroes’ who worked day and night as essential workers." 30 Oct - 1 Nov @Sadlers_Wells
#Theatre #TYA #Dance
https://t.co/C2ul9uJmUT
everything-theatre.co.uk
Takeshi Matsumoto reveals the secrets of Club Ninja ahead of playing at the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells from Thursday 30 October to Saturday 1 November.
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#Review: By Heart @battersea_arts ★★★★ "It feels like a privilege to be in this room tonight, raised up by shared human interaction, and empowered by knowledge." #theatre #offwestend #clapham
https://t.co/vR2pStIXTs
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#Interview: Elisabeth Gunawan on Prayers for a Hungry Ghost @BarbicanCentre "In Buddhist lore, hungry ghosts are believed to be the restless spirits of people who, in life, were violent, greedy, or clinging." #theatre #offwestend #barbican
https://t.co/rHd4lH6DWT
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#Interview: Fanta Barrie on This Little Earth "I think it reflects a feeling that people have that there is something very wrong with the world around us and a human desire to make sense of that." @ArcolaTheatre from 22 October #theatre #flatearthers
https://t.co/UQzxAZOyu6
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#Review: code of engagement @coronettheatre ★★★ "The dance is everything human all at once: beautiful, ugly, surprising, spiritual, connective, but subversively liberating." #theatre #dance #offwestend
https://t.co/ynTOsgY5nc
everything-theatre.co.uk
An unconventional and captivating performance reimagining the human body that has a problematic use of space.
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#Review: Baby Bird & Bee @PolkaTheatre ★★★★ "A beautifully conceived and executed work that just casts a spell over its young audience." #theatre #TYA #WImbledon
https://t.co/wSDoXVvtvK
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#Review: Scenes from the Climate Era @PlaygroundW10 ★★★★ "It connects the local and the global in the way that only theatre can, reminding the audience that we’re all the same in being individuals experiencing the same event." #theatre #offwestend
https://t.co/wZdIRKYnZl
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#Interview: Nathan Gael York discusses Black Men Walking "It felt like the right moment to bring those voices back into the room and explore them afresh with a new cast." 7 - 11 October @TowerTheatre
#theatre #offwestend
https://t.co/29MjDtV6uj
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#Review: Little Gift @HalfMoonTheatre ★★★ "A wonderfully crafted production that creates the perfect conditions for community, compassion and caring." #Theatre #TYA #puppets
https://t.co/aZ5mDQvVcq
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#Review: Lacrima @BarbicanCentre ★★★ "There’s no denying this is an impressive production with challenging, hugely valid content." #theatre #Barbican #drama #dressmaking #lacemaking #multimedia
https://t.co/QIVqgJXv0M
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