★★★★☆ Last night’s performance was a sell-out, and it was pleasing to see how many young children were in the audience. Lost in Translation Circus clearly enjoyed presenting this show at Circomedia, which offers a wonderful performance space. We will surely see this very talented troupe return to Portland Square before too long.
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★★★★☆ When the curtain rises on English Touring Theatre’s Equus, a featureless stage is revealed, surrounded by tall, white curtains. It’s a sterile space, well-suited for the clinical examination of a mentally disturbed patient. In one corner a figure lies huddled, as if hiding from some torment. When he stands up, we see that he is not an inmate of this psychiatric unit, but the psychiatrist himself.
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★★★★☆ The show opens in a grim girls’ orphanage. The walls tower up into darkness, and huge doors and tall lamps accentuate the tininess of the occupants, lying on their starkly function beds. The laundry boy tells them that they get ‘clean sheets once a month, whether they need them or not’. Everything is bathed in a blue-green, sepulchral light.
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★★★★★ There is far more to Bourne’s Swan Lake than mere gender-juggling. In many ways, a more interesting aspect of Bourne’s achievement is that he has taken the central idea of the story back to its dark, mythic origins.
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★★★☆☆ This is a new story, written specifically for the stage by Ian Rankin and Rona Munro. Having previously played John Rebus in the BBC Radio series, Ron Donachie again takes on the role. We see that this hard-bitten, Edinburgh detective has now retired and lives alone in his dusty flat, with only a few old case files for company.
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