★★★☆☆ All the ingredients look tasty enough; a talented cast, a director with all the experience one could want and an award-winning playwright. The designer too has a list of credits as long as your arm. And yet … Sadly no yeast was applied to the ingredients and despite a few moments of breezy turnabout, the mixture failed to rise.
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★★★★☆ I doubt it could be ever said of Kneehigh that they have bitten off more than they can chew. Such is the method to the madness that nothing is beyond their wit. At first blush then, The Tin Drum would appear to be ideal material for this exceptional company, with the magical realism of the book offering an opportunity for a thoroughgoing exercise of their strengths.
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★★★★☆ The show is a richly textured torrent of memorable characters, songs and verbal and physical jokes; galloping whimsy at its best. Anything funnier would likely need to include whoopee cushions at the Palace.
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★★★★☆ Ever innovative, Rambert bring us a programme of three pieces with healthily varied subjects. Having rummaged around in the box marked ‘interesting things’ the three choreographers have produced a clutch of dances linked merely by their breathtaking audacity. . .All in all it is an evening of wit, depth and dazzling technique
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★★★★☆ This is an opera that demands impeccable technique of its singers and the ETO doesn’t disappoint. The bright sound required by Handel and provided by the castratos does present a problem for a modern production with the dearth of such curiosities in these straightened times.
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