Author: Graham Wyles

CRIMES UNDER THE SUN at the Ustinov, Bath

★★☆☆☆ The show suffered from being under rehearsed and the actors looked uncomfortable at times, though by the time it goes on the road it will no doubt have the opportunity to tighten up and relax. What was written as a bit of a lark has some nice ideas whilst a bit more of a guiding hand is needed to harness the flashes of creative potential.

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SEXY at the Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol

★★★★☆ Sexy is a multi-media show with some well-chosen film clips, screen goddesses in the main, but with some uncomfortable glances back to not so distant past attitudes. Lobbing a small hand grenade about sex or race into the arena, she smiles a knowing smile, which wickedly, morphs into a winning smile.

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SWAN LAKE at Bath Theatre Royal

★★★★☆ The two principals, Mr.Vadim Lolenko and Ms Natalya Romanova have achieved a technical assurance with each other that produces, in their lakeside pas de deux, a filigree delicacy that perfectly matches the melancholic mood of the bewitched princess, Odette, and her cohort of swans.

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A PASSAGE TO INDIA at the Bristol Old Vic

★★★★☆ Imperialism and racism poisons those human capacities that can bring us together, but sadly they are not the only poisons that tear humanity apart. Whatever may have happened in the intervening century the themes of this play remain as relevant today as they were during the height of the age of empires.

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