Let There Be Light ... Comedy!Uncle Semolina (and Friends) is a performing arts collective with a knack for turning out memorable theatre in the most unlikely places like an abandoned shop or a shipping container. After the success of their reinterpretation of the ancient and homoerotic epic Gilgamesh Uncle Semolina are tackling that daddy of all epics, the Bible, in their Chronicles of the Old Testament, a selection of the sordid, taboo-ridden and violent stories from the Old Testament so beloved of fundamentalists.Using their trademark props, namely a collection of children's toys and kindergarten furniture, the cast act out the ...
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School Daze?Alan Bennett's first play was a self styled revue called Forty Years On unrolling the history of post-war Britain with singing schoolboys and doting dons. This time Bennett's boys recount the downfall of one dear and queer old teacher Hector and the rise to power of another less popular but no less queer Irwin.Underneath the surface story is Bennett’s view of Post-Thatcher Britain. Even Thatcher’s most memorable saying “There is No Such Thing as Society” is parodied on the blackboard when the play opens.In 1983 a group of boys, fresh from their A-Levels (something akin to the VCE) have ...
