★★★★☆ All the classic panto moments are here – sweets thrown into the audience, the audience singalong, the parish notices and four children getting goody bags onstage, before the inevitable marriage finale, for which the costume designers had thrown away all caution. All as good as a flaming Christmas pud.
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★★☆☆☆ Ten Times Table is one of Ayckbourn’s trilogy of plays written during winter months in the 1970’s, the others being Just Between Ourselves and Time and Time Again. Seen together they have come to represent the period when Ayckbourn turned his focus onto social realism, finding a darker edge than in previous works.
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★★★★☆ Mike Bartlett’s gripping and ambitious tale of dysfunction and personal peril uses the imminent threat of an earthquake to symbolise impending climate catastrophe and the seismic emotional tipping points between three sisters, their father and their partners.
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★★★★☆ Young, gifted and black; women, four of them, telling it like it is on a blank stage. Sometimes the best theatre can force you to breathe in what it is to be human; to witness, with the least filter, real experience.
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★★★★★ Whether whispering instructions to the inept and rival lover Christian beneath Roxane’s window, leaping barricades during the war with Spain or duelling with those will the nerve to refer to his proboscis, Sturrock’s Cyrano is a playful magnet always drawing the eye, exposing the conflicted man’s inner and outer workings while he both rages and inwardly weeps.
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