Our reviewer MIKE WHITTON looks back over the past six years and the 170 shows he has seen on our behalf in Bristol and Bath. He reveals a dislike for juke box musicals and pantomime but is happy to see everything by the Welsh National Opera, Matthew Bourne or absolutely anything starring Audrey Brisson . . .
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★★★★★ What is ‘realistic’ about these Joneses lies not merely their surface naturalism, but in the way that, in their desperation and in their need for each other, they speak movingly of our shared mortality.
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★★★☆☆ ‘Light and airy’ could serve to describe the pervading mood, for this production of Dial M For Murder does not have darkness at its heart. In an attractive and nimble performance, Tom Chambers portrays Tony as a fast-talking charmer whose increasingly desperate, last-minute escapes from detection are masterpieces of quick-thinking under pressure.
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★★★★★ This show is a hoot, or perhaps that should be a honk or a quack. Yet it all starts very quietly, for we are presented with the romantic vista of a tranquil lake, edged by silver birch trees . . .
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★★★★☆ Romantics Anonymous is highly entertaining, though the plot has pretty much run is course by the interval, and the second half consists of a repetition of the same will-they-or-won’t-they theme. It’s rather old-fashioned in many ways, and its combination of wit, romance and dance is very reminiscent of the Astaire and Rogers musicals of the 1930’s.
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