★★★★☆ The action starts in a Theban ping-pong parlour, where the young Hercules is proving to be unbeatable. He is urged on by a shouty Zeus, the epitome of ‘competitive dad’, who believes that there is nothing worse than being a loser.
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★★★★★ Of all the great classical ballets, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake has an unrivalled iconic status. The picture of a row of perfectly symmetrical ballerinas, all in white tutus and with arms a-fluttering, is the most familiar image we have of ballet.
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★★★☆☆ Two actors walk on to the bare stage; they have never met before and they know very little about what they are going to perform. They have seen no script and there has been no rehearsal. What follows is situated somewhere between conceptual art and improvisatory theatre.
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StageTalk Magazine reviewer Mike Whitton has been going to the Bristol Old Vic for over fifty years. Here are some fond recollections of the period 1965-67 when he saw actors such as Patrick Stewart and Peter O’Toole at the very start of their careers.
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★★★★☆ At a time when the AIDS crisis was at its height in 1983 and Section 28 decreed that no school could teach that homosexuality was acceptable, writer Jonathan Harvey was undeniably brave to depict a gay relationship in positive terms.
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