★★★☆☆ The action takes place in an American farmhouse. Designer David Korins has created a convincingly detailed image of rustic comfort, with wood beams, a stone-flagged floor, and wicker furniture . . .
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★★★★☆ Willy Russell’s play is fast approaching its fortieth birthday. Back in 1980 this exceptionally witty two-hander made some trenchant observations about education and social class. A lot has changed since then, both in academia and in society in general
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★★★★☆ Let It Be aims to be ‘The Beatles reunion you never got to see’. The creative team behind this show has gone to extraordinary lengths to achieve a kind of historical accuracy that will appeal to anyone who fondly remembers the days when the Fab Four were the dominant force in popular music. There are moments in Let It Be that are eerily like being taken back in time.
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★★★★☆ 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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★★★☆☆ How My Light Is Spent is a poetic, optimistic and magical story, set in circumstances that are all too grimly real. It tells the story of a man in his thirties, Jimmy, who has lost his job in Newport and who has very little prospect of finding a new one.
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