★★★☆☆ 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 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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★★★★★ I really enjoyed We Are Ian, which is surprising, for I do not dance; never have, really. I suspected that I was the last person who should have been asked to review a show about the Acid House music of the 1980s . . .
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★★★☆☆ 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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★★★★☆ Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory’s Othello is beautifully acted and full of fresh invention. Right from the start Othello’s ‘otherness’ is seen to be more significant than a mere difference in skin colour. Director Richard Twyman has drawn on the expertise of creative adviser Abdul-Rehman Malik to give us an Othello who is first and foremost a Muslim, even though the crucifix he wears might suggest otherwise.
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