Our marketing intern Chloe headed along to see the new Rifco Arts production - read what she thought here.
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Break the Floorboards review by Chloe Rawson
Thursday 23rd May 2013
Tags: events, music, warwick, west midlands, coventry, music, drama, dance, comedy, literature, films, film, visual art, art centre, arts, venue, warwickshire
The Box Office Blogs: Student Theatre and Events
Tuesday 12th February 2013
Third year student Beccy Ward talks about her experience at Warwick Arts Centre, both on stage and in the box office.
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The Animals and Children Took to the Streets - Review
Wednesday 23rd January 2013
Sinéad Bevan, Communications Assistant, reviews 1927's dark and beautiful new show.
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Adventures in theatrical space: science fiction on stage.
Tuesday 5th February 2013
I’m the sort of arts graduate who read Shakespeare in Klingon, so I’m incredibly excited by imitating the dog’s The Zero Hour, a rare piece of work which appeals both as theatre and as science fiction.
Set in the dying moments of World War II, The Zero Hour is speculative fiction along the lines of Robert Harris’ hugely successful Fatherland novel, imagining three very different outcomes to the war – and in one reality, the Soviets have even discovered a way to send messages through time.
It’s a tantalising prospect. It’s not often that ideas of time travel and parallel realities are explored through theatre, perhaps because there are certain visual expectations on genre fiction that cinema and television are more capable of delivering. But here The Zero Hour looks set to deliver too, as sophisticated use of computer graphics, video projection and a filmmaking narrative framework blurs the boundary between theatre and film and makes possible on stage a visual depth normally reserved for the screen. There seems no better place to examine the concept of time travel than in the place where the live intersects with the pre-recorded, as the nuances of human lives...
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