★★★★☆ This is a joyous, bawdy romp which tackles some pretty unsavoury subjects. Blood is not always thicker than water and here, theatre often makes up for family dysfunction. Rice has put together a great ensemble, where most of the performers take many roles
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★★★★☆ Martin Luther King who has just given his famous ‘I’ve been to the Mountaintop,‘ speech and is preparing for his next one. It is 3rd April 1968 and we are in Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis where King is ordering room service on the telephone.
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★★★☆☆ The two actors, Michael Ajao and Valentine Olukoga, brilliantly play all the parts- the four brothers, ‘mummy’ (a particularly fine performance which adds some much needed humour) and ‘daddy, a ‘mad’ soothsayer and other parts of this small village community in Nigeria.
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★★★★☆ Mathew Kelly is superb as Auden, suitably seedy, world weary and outrageous, with a penchant for rent boys. David Yelland’s Britten is beautifully clipped and uptight, only relaxing when accompanying young boys on the piano. Britten’s music is cleverly interspersed throughout the play.
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★★★☆☆ In 2014, The North Wall ran a summer residency for 26 young people. The culmination was a scratch performance of Fragment, a blend of songs and stories about love, loss and heartache. This has evolved into the production we see today, written by John Hoggarth and directed by Ria Parry, who are also the Co-Artistic Directors of The North Wall.
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