★★★★☆ Northern Broadsides are staging a new rendition of Edmond Rostand’s play, adapted by Debbie McAndrew, which may not entirely overcome that criticism, but is an admirable piece of work nonetheless.
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★★★★☆ The first act consists of Tangent, where the dancers enact the movement of the seasons to Jason Ridgway’s piano music. It’s no reflection of the skill of the dancers or the quality of Ridgway’s accompaniment that I found this the least interesting of the pieces. Certainly the troupe do a good job of evoking the flirtations of spring and the dourness of winter, etc. . . . the Richard Alston Dance Company performed a holistically impressive show.
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★★★☆☆ Ruth Rendell’s lauded crime novel has been newly adapted courtesy of Bill Kenwright and directed by Roy Marsden – himself a veteran of appearing in and directing crime procedurals, not least in Cheltenham last year with Rehearsal for Murder. This is very much a successor to the work of the Agatha Christie Theatre Company’s work and will prove very satisfying to fans of police procedurals and crime thrillers.
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★★★★★ Most enthusiastic Shakespeare fans are familiar with The Reduced Shakespeare Company by this point. Their fast-paced skit-based pastiches of Shakespeare and other major literary figures have been delivered since the late 80s with pleasing consistency . . .
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★★★★★ Paula Sides made for a wilful and impassioned Tosca – one could fully buy into the violent transition from lover to murderer to defiant rebel. The character of Cavaradossi can be tricky because he is a cat’s paw batted back and forth by so many of the major characters in the opera but Samuel Sakker does an excellent job of imbuing him with a sense of agency and, ultimately, pity.
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