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Gully Thompson wrote a new post 3 years ago
Alan Brough’s new musical for children suffers from thoughtless stereotyping, says youth critic Gully Thompson
Children’s theatre is important. It acts as a doorway into adult theatre and it shapes how you […]
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Gully Thompson wrote a new post 3 years, 1 month ago
An experiment that doesn’t quite deliver, We’re Probably Really Really Happy Right Now at Theatre Works is nevertheless a deeply interesting work of queer performance, says Gully Thompson
Experimental the […]
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Gully Thompson wrote a new post 3 years, 2 months ago
Victorian Opera’s interpretation of the classic opera The Sleeping Beauty – written originally in the wake of the Spanish Flu pandemic – has fresh power in the age of Covid, says Gully Thompson
Sleeping Beaut […]
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Gully Thompson wrote a new post 3 years, 2 months ago
The evocation of the child within animates the charm of La Mama’s Jofus and the Whale, writes youth critic Gully Thompson
It may be unnecessary to say, but I haven’t been to the theatre for a very long tim […]
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Gully Thompson wrote a new post 3 years, 9 months ago
15-year-old Gully Thompson investigates online pandemic theatre for children and finds that La Mama’s Super Jenny! is pretty close to super
Theatre in the Covid-19 era brings a lot of challenges – the pro […]
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Gully Thompson wrote a new post 4 years ago
‘An auditory feast’: New Music icon Margaret Leng Tan’s biographical work Dragon Ladies Don’t Weep rocks 14 year old Gully Thompson’s musical world
Margaret Leng Tan is famed for being a virtuoso of the toy p […]
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Gully Thompson wrote a new post 4 years, 1 month ago
For 14 year old Gully Thompson, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is merely an exercise in nostalgia and visual dazzle
Harry Potter is undeniably the juggernaut of children’s pop culture. The
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Gully Thompson wrote a new post 4 years, 5 months ago
‘This is not a show: it’s a wake-up call.’ Youth critic Gully Thompson on Born in a Taxi’s Children of the Evolution
I’m very passionate about the voice of the child (casually tips hat at Greta Thunberg) […] -
Gully Thompson wrote a new post 4 years, 6 months ago
Youth critic Gully Thompson is both enraptured and frustrated by Unicorn Theatre’s The End of Eddy
Educational theatre is something of a coin toss. It can either end with the audience’s heads tossed up in s […] -
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