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Tag: theatre-review

  • Theatre: Monday Morning – Performed at Mind The Gap, Bradford

    Oliver Mellor

    Recently I had the unforgettable experience of having a piece of theatre that I, myself had written, being brought to life by a performance executed with assistance from group of phenomenal actors and organisers who certainly reciprocated my intentions. The piece performed was an extract from my up and coming Kitchen Sink Drama entitled ‘Monday Morning’ written and directed by myself, Oliver Mellor. As stated, the play is called Monday Morning and was advertised as:

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  • Theatre: Metamorphosis – Performed at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry

    Oliver Mellor

    ‘As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect’ – One of the most bewildering yet bizarre expositions to a novella ever written, Metamorphosis is argued to have secured Franz Kafka’s podium within literature as ‘20th Century’s most significant writer’. His cacophony of anxiety and alienation has established his own writing technique within the human emotional spectrum – ‘Kafkaesque’. Kafka’s society isn’t pleasurable, reflecting the tiresome torment of an inescapable nightmare yet for some dark periods of time we will eventually end up there.

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  • Theatre: Romeo and Juliet – Performed at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester

    Oliver Mellor

    A classic tragedy with romanticism weaved within it, Romeo and Juliet may be one of William Shakespeare’s biggest triumphs. A tragic love story where two star-crossed protagonists fall in forbidden love yet are forced to be sworn enemies who eventually are drafted into their family’s chaotic conflict. Juliet is sentenced to marry Count Paris, which subsequently means Romeo and Juliet are unable to be together resulting in the pairs bittersweet demise but is juxtaposed as peace and unification is developed. It is one of the most praised and admired plays ever to be written, and this rendition fulfils expectations impressively.

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