★★★★★ If it’s sold out – and it soon will be, I suggest that you beg, steal or borrow a ticket for this, the funniest, most inventive and exciting comedy for years . . . Like a similar show: The 39 Steps, it will run and run and have revival after revival.
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★★★★☆ Shakespeare’s early play, co-written with George Peele is the revenge play to end revenge plays, setting lasting standards only in horror. Yet Blanch McIntyre’s production, with a bravura title role performance from David Troughton, has much to commend it.
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★★★☆☆ Oscar Wilde is associated with satirical comedy rather than tragedy, but Salomé from 1892 deals with the destructive power of supressed sexuality with passion and theatricality and, if not a classic, deserves its occasional revival to reflect changing attitudes in society.
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★★★☆☆ Perhaps I’m a blackened sinner or just plain naïve, but a play billed as a risqué Roman sex comedy, came across to me as full of charming, childish fun . . . You leave the theatre smiling, and that’s an outcome worth more than rubies in these politically challenged day
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★★★★☆ This night began as a night at the ballet should, with that rare thing – the sound of a live orchestra tuning-up over expectant audience hubbub. And then suddenly, it was curtain-up into a transformed world of grace, drama and beauty, as music and motion, staging and costume merged into an astonishing and indescribable whole. And who better to produce that alchemy than The Birmingham Royal Ballet accompanied by the RB Sinfonia?
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