★★★★☆ Heather is a short and fiendishly clever two-hander structured in three distinct parts . . . Charlotte Melia is fascinating in the title role, peeling away layer after layer to reveal… what? I’m not telling. Heather lasts less than an hour, but it will leave you thinking for much longer.

★★★★☆ Having triumphed last year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Two Man Show comes to Portland Square Bristol at the start of a nationwide tour. In a seventy-five-minute mash-up of song, dance and drama it takes a highly energetic and occasionally bewildering look at masculinity and patriarchy.

★★★★☆ Set in the southern United States in the period 1948 to 1973, Driving Miss Daisy was first performed thirty years ago. . . . Siân Phillips delivers a performances of star quality that exploits the defiant energy of her role to the full. She is feistiness personified. But it is Derek Griffiths’ performance as the noble, resilient Hoke that is truly outstanding. He is splendid.