★★★★☆ Christmas Eve is a timely reminder that, being jealous of our democracy, we must at all times remain vigilant, never assuming the arguments are being made for us or that those charged with protecting us know what it is they protect. It is a well-polished gem of a play with fine acting to set it off.
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★★★★☆ The show is a celebration of the Gershwins and is based on their 30s show, Girl Crazy with the addition of songs from elsewhere in their output. This revival is above all a company show. The onstage cast act, sing, dance and play most of the instruments of the band -sometimes all at once . . .
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★★★★☆ If ever a political play had been crying out for revival this was it. It only needs a revival of Jules Feiffer’s Little Murders, which takes a satirical look at casual slaughter in America and the survey will be complete. As Russell says, perhaps adapting Wordsworth, ‘The past is always with us’.
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★★★★☆ How to keep warm? How to survive? How to stay together? These were the urgent questions. This is a play about survival, about testing the limits of endurance and about the qualities revealed in extremesis: an act of kindness here from a criminal, an act of selfishness there from a friend.
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★★★★☆ In How The Other Half Loves Ayckbourn is finding his feet, looking around at the landscape of the genre and working out how he can make his mark. The play’s most distinguishing feature is thus the novelty two separate settings being both coterminous and contemporaneous.
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