StageTalk’s Graham Wyles has been taking a closer look at Bath’s wonderful children’s theatre, the egg, and meets Kate Cross one of the most influential theatre administrators you may never have heard of. She was the driving force behind the creation of the theatre and has been its sole executive director.
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★★★★☆ An interesting choice of play to kick off the summer season . . . It is a play, primarily of ideas, that whilst it may have lost some of its bite, has lost none of its depth, which in this production is brought out by all-round excellent acting being facilitated by sensitive and penetrating direction.
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In keeping with their philosophy of offering plays that are tailored to and relevant for a particular age group the egg has staged a new play by Bristol playwright Margarita Sidirokastriti, which imagines the journey of a young refugee from an unspecified African (or North African) country
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★★★★☆ Full of wit both in content and execution, touching, but never maudlin INFINITY POOL is a show from someone with an instinctive grasp of the ‘dramatic’ that is helping to redefine our notions of ‘theatrical’.
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★★★★☆ There is something particularly engaging about a personal revelation: insights into actual minds affect us in a way that differs from fictional narratives, perhaps not more powerfully, but with an added poignancy . . . Mental is an honest and humane piece of theatre that draws back the curtain on an area of public misunderstanding . . .
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