Author: Graham Wyles

Review: NOUGHTS AND CROSSES at Bristol Old Vic

★★★★☆ It would be easy to read the play as merely a critique of the South African apartheid regime, but that comfortable option would be to overlook the ever-present dangers that seep out with depressing regularity from the dung pit of far right factions

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Review: STONES IN HIS POCKETS at Bath Theatre Royal

★★★☆☆ The fun in this production comes from the instantaneous quick changes and deft characterizations which occasionally left one wondering who’s what where, so seamless were they. The show gives Bath audiences a chance to see a show which has conquered both the West End and Broadway.

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Review: RICHARD III at Bristol Old Vic

★★★★☆ Tom Mothersdale’s creation is a dark, impulsively malevolent thing.  A bustling, misshapen upstart, swooping around the stage like a balletic crab, his pincers jabbing and snipping at anything that gets in his way. He is an actor quite at home in his expressive body which, articulate as it is articulated, gives physical expression to a twisted mind.

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Review: ROUGH CROSSING at Bath Theatre Royal

★★★☆☆ It is remarkable that such a flimsy, improbable concoction set on board the transatlantic liner, Italian Castle, should enjoy an apparently charmed life at the hands of, firstly; Ferenc Molnár, the originator, then P.G.Wodehouse and now Tom Stoppard. . . . This is playful Stoppard without the head scratching. 

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