Review: IDIOTS ASSEMBLE: Spitting Image Saves The World at Birmingham Rep
★★★★☆ Romping Great Fun and Delightfully Offensive
Read MorePosted by Robert Gainer | 17 Feb 2023
★★★★☆ Romping Great Fun and Delightfully Offensive
Read MorePosted by Robert Gainer | 4 Feb 2020
★★★★☆ The story is set in a family home and a secondary school in Ballinatoom, a fictional small town in West Cork, Ireland. The first half introduces us to the characters and sets up the key event, the rape of 18-year old Emma, played by Lauren Coe. It is a hot, hopeful summer of sport and sexual awakening . . .
Read MorePosted by Robert Gainer | 23 Dec 2019
★★★★★ The production company, Qdos Entertainment have once again employed the services of the charismatic Matt Slack, the very model of a modern pantomime comedian, to take the audience on a madcap dash through one of the nation’s favourite fairy tales
Read MorePosted by Robert Gainer | 6 Dec 2019
★★★★☆ Think you know Peter Pan? Think again. This production eschews the trite white middle-class London Georgian house setting, replete with piano enhanced drawing room and received pronunciation, served up in cinemas for the last seventy years. This is a collision of J. M. Barrie’s classic tale of ‘the boy who never grows up’ with Tracey Beaker
Read MorePosted by Robert Gainer | 6 Nov 2019
★★★★★ Not far off 150 years old, Carmen was a controversial play at its premiere, and there remain unresolved moral aspects of a different kind today. For years the central character has been both vilified and celebrated in equal measure for being a woman of unchaste virtue, for daring to have the liberty to control of her own sexuality.
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