Author: Mike Whitton

Review: FREEMAN at the Bristol Old Vic

★★★★☆  Six figures pull and push, writhe and wrestle, arching over each other’s backs until, one by one, five of them fall to the floor as if dead.  The sixth does not fall, and he is the only white performer. In an intensely gripping hour of physical theatre, Freeman tells six stories, threaded together by recurring themes of institutional racism and injustice.

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Review: THE GREATEST OF THE GREATEST at The Wardrobe, Bristol

★★★☆☆  The Greatest Of The Greatest is very loosely based on a real-life event.  Thommy Berggren is a veteran actor and director who has been showered with awards, and Mikael ‘Micke’ Persbrandt is a hugely popular actor in Sweden who British audiences will have seen in The Hobbit and the Netflix hit Sex Education.

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