★★★★☆ This is the latest production by three-piece ‘The Devil’s Violin’. This story-telling musical trio are led by narrator Daniel Morden in a series of atmospheric, sometimes chilling but for the most part redemptive, magical stories.
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★★★★★ What was not to like? Bright and beautifully delivered performances from the entire company were given a fulcrum by the scintillating Soraya Mafi as the cheeky, irrepressible Countess’s maid, Susanna alongside the deliciously warm bass tones of David Ireland as Figaro.
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★★★★☆ Bidding farewell to youth, becoming the next older generation, being solely responsible for one’s life, can all be fearful freefall-type moments. Diverse City pull no punches here, but in this brutally honest exposé of mid-life menopausal crisis, there is something endearingly human about Claire, Jacqui and Karen’s stories. And by the end we are literally dancing with them to the tune of I Am What I Am by Gloria Gaynor.
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★★★☆☆ The Theatre Royal seems a very suitable venue for Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman’s Ghost Stories. Home to several ghosts of its own, including the famous ‘Grey Lady’, a phantom doorman and a ‘Thing’ composed of several screaming faces accompanied by cold chills and whispering voices, a gentler apparition here is said to take the form of a butterfly.
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★★★★★ There’s a seething rave-meets-festival atmosphere to a night in which a perambulatory audience is encouraged to sing with gusto by colourful karaoke displays and a throbbing rock band, the Sweaty Bureaucrats and their charismatic singer and dancer Nandi Bhebhe. For in-your-face entertainment, general hilarity, audience participation with knobs on, coupled with nailed-on examples of Trumpian despotism, look no further.
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