Category Archives: Nick Muthama
Ibsen Through the Eyes of Strathmore
(This critique appeared in The EastAfrican March 7-13 under the title Treachery and deciet behind the façade) THE heavy sound of a door being slammed is heard from below. These are the last words in the last scene of Ibsen’s … Continue reading
Strathmore On the Wilde Side
(This review appeared in The East African October 11-17 2010) Russian director Vesvold Meyerhold described himself as the ‘author of the spectacle’, which is fitting because, while the playwright uses words to communicate his ideas, the director uses stage action. … Continue reading
Strathmore Takes On Chekhov
(A version of this critique appeared in the East African 14th -20th June 2010) THE relative success of their production of Gogol’s The Government Inspector last year, seems to have spurred the Strathmore University Drama Society to take the bold … Continue reading
From Russia But Fits Like a Glove
(A version of this review appeared in the Sunday Nation on 26th April 2009) Nikolai Gogol’s The Inspector General (also known as The Government Inspector or Revisor) closed at the French Cultural Centre on 19th April 2009, 173 years to … Continue reading
