Drama to stand
Edelman’s performance takes in “babysitting for rich kids”, working at KFC, a “unique” graduation along with 15,000 others, and a cancer scare.
The personable stand-up — who will be supporting Simon Amstell on his UK tour — reveals an intelligent mind.
Until August 24
IN JULIA Pascal’s satirical fantasy, which seeks to deconstruct nationalism, Joan of Arc is transmogrified into Joan Rabinowitz, a Londoner with black Jewish roots. She travels back in time to medieval France, revisits the Holocaust and passes through 19thcentury Africa en route, thus encountering slavery.
Pascal imparts different facets of Joan’s character to her impassioned cast of three.
Rachel Halper and Juliet Dante are respectively the virginal and intellectual historian Joan. Gehane Strehler i s Joan the warrior.
It’s an overtly physical and unremittingly serious production — and one, at times, I found confusing.
The notion of reclaimi ng J o a n f r o m t h e French far right — for whom she has become a nationalist icon — is fine. However, all the jumping around in time with scant signposting left me ultimately unmoved.
Until August 24