★★★★☆ This takes as its starting point the idea that Bram Stoker’s famous novel is a romanticised version of real-life events. Professor Van Helsing is furious with Stoker and is determined to put the record straight, so he has hired three actors to help him explain what really happened.
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★★★★☆ 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.
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★★★★☆ 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.
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★★★★☆ 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.
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★★★☆☆ Sister Act may not be destined to join the ranks of the very greatest musicals, but it has a growing number of faithful devotees. Last night at the Hippodrome there were some in the audience in full nun’s regalia – the habit is catching on
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