★★★★☆ The play is set over the course of one day in what we gradually discover is a sort of post apocalyptic prison camp. As the action moves on, we find the inmates are planning something . . .
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★★★☆☆ This small theatre is an ideal venue for a little company like the Tobacco Tea Company that had loads of energy and was putting on a relatively new play needing intimacy and directness. The piece is a new take on an old and well-worn story, known to most people now because of the Benedict Cumberbatch version on television.
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★★★★★ I realised last night that I was privileged to be at a very special theatrical event when at the end, the audience rose as one to give the cast a standing ovation. The spontaneity of this response was amazing and even produced some tears on stage. Whether this was some catharsis due to past difficulties, I don’t know, but Sheridan Smith was fantastic as Fanny Brice.
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★★★★☆ The evening consisted of two pieces both performed by solo women with very little words but some music and plenty of physicality. The first was about a woman and a bed and the second a woman and a chair.
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★★★★☆ The puppetry in this piece was fantastic and there is probably no other way of showing a man compulsively eating anything he can get hold of and then regurgitating some of it. Freaks are of course of intense fascination to the general public and of great scientific interest to doctors.
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