Stephen Walker

Aug 13, 2024 | theweereview.com | Stephen Walker

Funny Guy traces the effects of love and ambition on two New York couples, as changing fortunes and betrayals play out across their relationships – forcing both them and us to confront their real motivations. Dan and Emma seem outwardly successful. Dan is cool, laid-back, and looks like he spends plenty of time in the gym; he’s an alpha male who addresses everything in an elusive philosophical manner, even uttering the phrase “inchoate emotional dysphoria” at one point.

Aug 10, 2024 | theweereview.com | Stephen Walker

Jolie Klein seems to be the most vacuous and narcissistic person you’ll ever meet. She pushes away friends, lovers and therapists alike with her relentless self-obsession. Whatever has happened, she’s had it Worse Than You. You know the type. Well, perhaps you don’t. There’s much more going on here than you realise. To engage with Jolie is to be confronted with a trauma dump so big you can’t see around it.

Aug 8, 2024 | theweereview.com | Stephen Walker

Kafka’s Ape is a recasting of the short story A Report to an Academy – where an ape named Red Peter has learned to act like a human, and is invited to present a report about his transformation at an academic conference. This production from a South African company features a remarkable performance by Toni Bonami Miyambo, which will trigger thoughts of what it means to be human and reflections on the darkest aspects of our country’s history.

Aug 8, 2024 | theweereview.com | Stephen Walker

There is nothing like the simple pleasure of hearing stories told well, passed on orally as they were for hundreds of years. The myths of Ulster’s legendary past, like many other cultures, have their roots in the Iron Age in a time when communities were becoming more settled but there wasn’t yet a written culture. There’s definitely a pun in the title though, because Lara McClure’s solo show Oral Tradition centres around three legendary Ulsterwomen who used sex as a weapon to achieve their aims.

Aug 6, 2024 | theweereview.com | Stephen Walker

Arthur is a painter, but he’s got painter’s block if that’s a thing. He can’t quite get anything to work and he can’t see anything through. Inspired by Icarus from an old book of childhood stories, he feels inspired and flies into a manic whirl of painting, ignoring his girlfriend and his family. One of the paintings he is neglecting is a commission from his brother for a painting of climbing hero, Felice Benuzzi, who while trapped in a World War II prison camp vows to climb Mount Kenya.