★★★☆☆ The undoubted star of this show is Jodie Prenger, as Helen. Prenger portrays her as a woman who is all too aware that her best years are slipping into the distant past. She is determined to make the best of the time she has left. Brash, selfish and, at first, wholly unmotherly, she can be horribly cruel.
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★★★★★ In our age of multi-million dollar visual effects, where so much popular entertainment leaves nothing to the imagination, it is refreshing to experience straightforward storytelling at its best. If you can, catch next Sunday’s show at Tobacco Factory Theatres, for Robert Lloyd Parry is a master of his craft.
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★★★☆☆ The scene is a basement, where two women have come to hide from knife-wielding men who prowl above. Kelly is a tearful, panicky teenager with an injured foot. It transpires that this is the basement of her father’s house. Ashley, somewhat older, is more robust, and shows little sympathy for Kelly’s anxiety and pain.
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★★★★☆ ‘Who is going to look after the poor, now that Robin Hood is dead?’ Writer-performer Shôn Dale-Jones seeks to find an answer to that question in this highly inventive and original one-man show. Affable, informal and eager to please, his style of story-telling initially seems very straightforward.
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★★★★☆ This Uncle Vanya is ravishing to look at, strikingly contemporary in its central theme, and frequently very moving. Ivan Voynitsky, ‘Uncle Vanya’, is a part that Rupert Everett had long wished to tackle, and he saw that the best way to achieve that ambition would be to direct the play himself.
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