Author: Robert Gainer

Review: ASKING FOR IT at Birmingham Rep

★★★★☆ 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 . . .

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Review: PETER PAN at Birmingham Rep

★★★★☆ 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

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Review: Welsh National Opera’s CARMEN at Birmingham Hippodrome

★★★★★ 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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