★★★★☆ A young man walks to the stage, turns and greets us warmly. He tells us that he has just met someone he hasn’t seen for many years, and he cannot quite recall her name. This leads him to ponder his current situation, and we discover that he is struggling to come to terms with the break-up of a relationship.
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This has been a stimulating Directors’ Cuts season, and the best has been kept until last. Crave is an extraordinary prose-poem for which writer Sarah Kane supplied no setting, no stage directions and no descriptions of its four characters, . .
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★★★★☆ Tobacco Factory Theatres and Circomedia have joined forces to show three highlights of the 2016 BE Festival. This annual summer festival takes place at Birmingham REP and specialises in presenting unconventional work from Europe that defies easy categorisation.
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★★★★☆ In this age of ‘alternative facts’ and fake news, Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory could not have chosen a more apt play to update than Tartuffe. There occasional references to specific current issues, such as Brexit and Trump, but it is the play as a whole that has a very relevant message for our times.
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★★★★★ Groundswell Theatre’s Colin’s Head is a startlingly original play that had last night’s audience transfixed throughout . . . Who is Colin, and what has his head got to do with anything? You’ll have to see the play to find out. Catch it if you can.
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