Editorial team & reviewer

Emma Burnell in Conversation with Kamila Siwinska

17/09/2019

As I sit down with Kamila Siwinska there is glorious late summer sunshine outside the Teatr Polski in Poznan it is the last day of the Close Strangers...

4.0★ ★ ★ ★

Psychosis – Close Strangers Festival

Emma Burnell

17/09/2019

This is a swirling mix of very dark poetry and even darker humour presented with a powerful Brechtian soundtrack. The performance is non-linear but su...

Agata Siwiak and Joanna Wichowska in conversation with Emma Burnell
Close Strangers Festival 2019

Emma Burnell

15/09/2019

I meet Agata Siwiak in the glamorous downstairs bar and cabaret space at Teatr Polski in Poznan. It is the second day of the festival for which she is...

3.0★ ★ ★

Restaurant Ukraine – Close Strangers Festival

Emma Burnell

14/09/2019

Restaurant Ukraine is a deliberately disjointed affair. Made up of two performers mixing spoken word, dance, rap and political commentary it is more h...

5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful Times – Close Strangers Festival

Emma Burnell

13/09/2019

Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful Times is a fascinating play deserving of a wider audience and greater understanding. That I am saying that having e...

4.0★ ★ ★ ★

Red Wedding – Close Strangers Festival

Emma Burnell

12/09/2019

Red Wedding is an interactive piece with an interesting cultural past and much to recommend it. It explores through the enactment of a secular wedding...

4.0★ ★ ★ ★

Modern Slavery – Close Strangers Festival

Emma Burnell

11/09/2019

Modern Slavery is not really a play in the traditional sense. It is a collaborative piece in which each of the cast has researched different aspects o...

4.0★ ★ ★ ★

Tree

Emma Burnell

02/08/2019

Tree is a story of tangled roots, disputed histories and a past that is not as clear cut or understood as you think. And that’s just the story of the ...

3.0★ ★ ★

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

Emma Burnell

12/07/2019

This is definitely a play of two halves and one where – frankly – they are lucky I stayed past the interval to see what they were actually capable of....

4.0★ ★ ★ ★

The End Of History

Emma Burnell

05/07/2019

I’ve just seen a play about my family. No really. Three very different grown-up kids - tick. Activist boomer parents - tick. Endless arguments and spa...

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Emma Burnell in Conversation with Kamila Siwinska

Psychosis – Close Strangers Festival

Agata Siwiak and Joanna Wichowska in conversation with Emma Burnell
Close Strangers Festival 2019

Restaurant Ukraine – Close Strangers Festival

Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful Times – Close Strangers Festival

Red Wedding – Close Strangers Festival

Modern Slavery – Close Strangers Festival

Tree

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

The End Of History

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