★★★★☆ Million Dollar Quartet is a spirited rockabilly musical, depicting an auspicious spontaneous jam session. At the Sun Records studio in 1956 where they were all discovered, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis all found themselves playing together for the first and only time.
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★★★★★ The Weir, like so many great plays, is simple and intimate but has real depths to it. And with such a skilled cast, you quickly forget about the artifice of theatre through which it is rendered. You honestly just feel like you are sat in the same bar with these people as they wax lyrical on a cold and windy night.
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★★★☆☆ Jack Ellis, an experienced TV villain across several shows, is a very assured manipulator as the primary con man, Mike. He was a real pleasure to watch. On the more extravagant end we have Tim Treloar as Roat, who from the start is a marked as a particularly reptilian kind of sociopath.
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★★★★☆ A single act, it’s the story of an old boxing coach, Jimmy, taking on a girl, Jo, as his apprentice. As the training proceeds, Jimmy reflects on the news of Muhammed Ali’s refusal to serve in Vietnam in the light of his own conscience objection in WWI, whilst Jo must face more contemporary struggles in her home life.
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★★★★☆ Watermill’s rendition is steeped in a jazz era aesthetic. It’s a very canny way of treating the play, where Malvolio’s puritanism is channelled through Prohibition-era context, Sir Toby is a veteran of the speak-easy, and Duke Orsino’s court is a lavish jazz club.
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