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The hip-hop impro duo work 2012 comedy highlights into a freestyle rap.
The Shakespeare Olympics begin April 22 at the Globe
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Niklas Rådström's thoughtful but not always thought-provoking play about the killing of two-year-old James Bulger by a pair of ten-year-old boys involves cast members reading from the actual interrogation transcripts. Deliberately unsensational and emotionally uninflected, it's hair-raising in the way that it lays the 'facts' bare but leaves the mystery of the children's motives intact. Christopher Haydon's serious-minded, minimal production surrounds the bare playing space with video screens that evoke the ubiquitous glare of the media. The four performers, two male, two female, continually change roles to disrupt audience identification. But if the power of the core material and honesty of its handling are beyond debate, the incessant editorialising is less so, and sometimes you feel as though you're watching a particularly earnest edition of 'The Jeremy Kyle Show'.
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