★★★☆☆ 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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★★★★☆ This is a very entertaining, all-male production that well lives up to The Lord Chamberlain’s Men’s watchwords: ‘authenticity, excellence and magic’. Catch it if you can.
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★★★☆☆ Right from the start there is a sense of fun, and of provocative social comment, too. On entering, the audience is greeted by members of the cast who hand out leaflets about a community project.
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