★★★★☆ This vibrant, fast-paced version is not quite as glossily sanitised as the 1978 movie, but it is family friendly, the emphasis being on song and dance, rather than on social realism. Yes, the greasers strut their stuff in their leather jackets, but though they are in a gang, they are a long way from being gangsters.
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★★★★☆ Directed by Sally Cookson and devised together by the company, The Three Seagulls is an imaginative, energetic production that has moments both of high drama and of brooding melancholy, but the dominant mood is one of celebration.
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★★★★☆ At times Copenhagen is perhaps a little too pedagogic, and in the early stages of the play some expository passages are heavy-going. It is also, perhaps, a fraction too long. But it is an immensely absorbing play, and in this well-directed and superbly performed production, it is not to be missed.
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★★★★★ I had imagined that a poetry recital, albeit one directed and delivered by Ralph Fiennes, would prove to be a relatively low-key return to live theatre. I could not have been more wrong, for there is much in his Four Quartets that is simply astonishing.
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It tells the story of three young Bristol boys, friends since primary school, who enlist in the army to escape the banality and tick-tock drudgery of civilian life. Arthur has been driving cars off the container ships at Portbury docks: ‘… parking them in perfect lines, like headstones in a cemetery… Every day.
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