Author: Mike Whitton

THE WEDDING SINGER at the Bristol Hippodrome

★★★☆☆ The Wedding Singer is a cheery, feather-light musical that offers a tuneful evening of undemanding entertainment. Featuring twenty songs, many of them skilful pastiches of 1980s pop, it is certainly not lacking in music and dance. The songs are fine, but they come so thick and fast that they leave no time for any lengthy passages of dialogue, so it is a tribute to this show’s multi-talented cast that they succeed in creating distinctive personalities from relatively little material.

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The Establishment at the Bristol Wardrobe

★★★☆☆ Two gentlemen in dressing-gowns and nightcaps peer out nervously from behind a curtain. They appear reassured that they have an audience, so they emerge, resplendent now in rather garish outfits . . . The latter part of the show included a very satisfactory moose hunt, requiring a brave volunteer moose.

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PUGILIST SPECIALIST at Bristol Alma

★★★☆☆ Pugilist Specialist is undeniably a ‘wordy’ play. Shaplin is so keen to pack each line with a startling image or an amusing witticism that it all becomes rather static. It has a great deal to say about a whole range of topics, not the least being gender politics, but as a depiction of a ‘black ops’ mission it is often rather hard going.

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THE LONG TRICK at the Wardrobe, Bristol

★★★☆☆ It tells the story of Tristan, who lives with his young daughter Kelsey on a boat moored on the Helford River. Tristan makes a somewhat precarious living by stealing from all the local second homes that lie unoccupied for months while their wealthy owners are ‘up North’ in places like Kent or Surrey. He is careful to take anonymous items such as iPads and the like; if missed, they will not be traceable.

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