PRIDE WITH PREJUDICE

...Surreal ........Potteresque
TIME OUT

no punches were pulled depicting the troubled young artist Dickie Pride
THE STAGE

Alot of Rock & Roll but I liked it......brilliant David Lynch like sequences
CAMDEN NEW JOURNAl

THE CLAYMAN

an electrifying piece of contemporary theatre ....celebrates the totality of theatre in knowing hands PLAY’S INTERNATIONAL

.... the bravest imaginative flight that I’ve seen for some time ...
THE GUARDIAN

RASPUTIN

....a highly original production at Leicester Haymarket, a stylish production by the dual company
Fusion & Kaboodle. The cast really are faultless. Rikki Tarascas give s an impeccable performance
LEICESTER MERCURY

.....powerful drama & hilarious comedy ...seldom are such dramatic mood changes accomplished so effectively. Profound, ironic, hilarious, always a triumph of dramatic art in it’s purest form. With few props & a stark set Fusion & Kaboodle achieve an evocative and spellbinding show.....
LEICESTER MAIL

A nicely tuned satirical piece of fantasy about the fate of Rasputin in America. Offbeat
and entertaining
THE STAGE

Rasputin is a highly imaginative piece of theatrical storytelling from the collaboration of Fusion & Kaboodle…..energy , style & strong physical performances form the basis of the producti&on packed
with incident & invention....
MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS

All of the five strong cast gave a remarkable performances which knocked the stuffing out of the audience, with high energy and inventiveness which left the audience gasping
PORTSMOUTH EVENING NEWS

GREEK

....Berkoff’s play as directed by Fusions’ Rikki Tarascas is fabulous…....a strong intellectual ; piece performed with intelligence & marvellous lucidity....
THE SCOTSMAN@Edinburgh Festival

...stunning ugly drama- bile & bard - very powerful visual theatre - memorable performances......a triumph of dramatic choreography
THE GUARDIAN

Behind the closely gathered mayhem is a script verbose at times but generally lyth. Releasing it is a superlative cast. This is alternative theatre near to a conceivable peak
FESTIVAL TIMES ( EDINBURGH )

Sort of Nasty ‘Clockwork Orange’ meets nice 'Absolute Beginners' and the result is violent, humerous,erotic,embarassing,feminist , fascist,savage, exhausting and GREAT THEATRE.
FESTIVAL CITY RADIO

IT’S NO FUN YOU KNOW

Rikki Tarascas, the director assigned to me has been terrific, he picks up on the visual side and
dividing scenes up into rhythmic move ments like music
CITY LIFE – MANCHESTER

ARRESTED LAUGHTER TWO

... I have a feeling that I will remember this show long after memories of others have begun to fade Arrested Laughter Two is not for narrow minded people
THE STAGE

'OFF THE RAILS

Multi Media Fashion Show ...there were more idea’s in the course of this evening than many dance companies manage in a season, & where the roving lights, the modern dance , the music & the
costume shared a common purpose the result was something memorable
THE GUARDIAN

LUDD

....the action is riveting deserving of an Olympic gold for stage acrobatics....
MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER

...a style that mixed music ,lighting, mime, dance ,theatre & even smell owed much to Artaud. Rikki Tarascas wasexcellent as the incestuous decaying Usher
THE GUARDIAN

MATEY BOY

..the fluent performance had benefited greatly from the confidence building of director Rikki Tarascas.
NORTH WEST EVENING MAIL

...the words are powerful enough to begin with and given extra impact by Tarascas’s staging of the
show Tension between macho & sensitivity
THE GUARDIAN

'DECADENCE

Wickedly funny brawling monologue on Mescal.... inventively directed by Rikki Tarascas, black minimal deprivation chic
THE FINANCIAL TIMES

Under Tarascas delicate direction it slips down as smoothly as an Oyster down a gourmet’s gullet
HAMPSTEAD & HIGHGATE EXPRESS

'ROBINSON CRUSOE IN SPACE

Christmas Pantomine. Welfare State International. ....performances are impossible to resist. I see it
as a triumph of the imagination, wondrous but not precious...comic intensity & intimacy....
a combination of traditional panto & inovative wizardry
THE GUARDIAN

THE ELASTICATED MAN

Devised ...directed by Rikki Tarascas the Elasticated man goes far beyond what you would normally
see on cabaret stages. Here rules the naked terror of the absurd, and that is where the world of
art begins
KOINER STADT-ANZEIGER . BERLIN

THE TEMPEST

.... a brilliantly realised musical Tempest with an eclectic range of sources never misjudged & marvelously integrated - on entering the wide stage arena magic exerts its powerful influence...
DIRECTOR OF CENTRE. SALFORD UNIVERSITY - Department of Theatre