Michael Pennington has been around for as long as many of us can recall being interested in the theatre and the eventual coming to Lear seemed a good fit. Whilst not lacking in regal authority, his Lear is, naytheless, more a seeming politician used to getting his own way and thus tipped into senility by an uncontrollable temper no longer packing the authority to frame events . . . This is a thoroughly creditable production with a central performance that shines as a collector’s piece with a unique take on the role

You wouldn’t know it, but Emily Atack is making her stage debut in this recast touring production from Leicester’s Curve Theatre. She has not allowed the iconic status of the character of Holly Golightly to prevent her from making the part her own. She captures that breezy self-belief of the mildly delusional in her portrayal of the country girl who has come to the big city with a dream and remade herself – name and all – as a fashionable socialite with no visible means of support beyond the men of various shapes and sizes who fall under her spell.