★★★★★ With ten minutes to go before ‘curtain up’, three or four doughty Shakespeare fans, looking more like fell walkers than theatre goers, squelched their way up to the wooden beams that provided rudimentary seating, light brown mud adding greatly to the weight of their shoes.
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★★★★☆ Running in tandem with harrowing tales of political capitulation and betrayal, Vanessa Redgrave affectionately balances her story with personal tales of her family, centering mostly on her father Sir Michael Redgrave, himself a committed socialist – tracking his friendships
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★★★★★ Against a lovingly-detailed set that evoked the Paris Metro, with its deco panelling and art nouveau lettering, and warmed by Elliot Griggs’ deliciously sympathetic lighting, we were instantly thrown into the noisy French capital. Audrey Brisson immediately stood out as the naïve, enigmatic Amélie.
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★★★★☆ At the heart of the performance was the excellent Brendan Purcell who gave us a Henry full of bravado, a man of wit and mischief, an intelligent and sentient individual sometimes wracked with private fears, sometimes ruthlessly cruel. He was supported throughout by an excellent cast.
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★★★★★ Puccini wouldn’t have envisaged his Marcello with a laptop, or that a cast for his opera could be as comfortable performing in the foyer of a theatre as on its main stage. But Opera Up Close are the masters of reinvention, and on this evening’s showing will have made many new friends here in Bristol.
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