★★★★★ 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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★★★☆☆ The play starts in a wartime waste ground. Four young girls gather to play out imaginary games. They like to scare each other with ideas of killing their mothers or summoning the dead or bragging about going to the ‘boys’ den’. Life itself seems a threat, yet full of possibility.
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★★★☆☆ Last year would have been Cornish playwright Nick Darke’s 70th birthday. Sadly, he died in 2005, but his works, particularly his plays produced by Kneehigh Theatre in the 1990s, which chimed so closely with their anti-establishment Kernow roots, have become iconic illustrations of Cornish life, Cornish politics.
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★★★★☆ In Louis de Bernières’ epic tale of love and war set in the Greek island of Cephalonia during the Second World War, he seeks to make the social every bit as important as the political history. Within the grand sweep of military operations are the lives of ordinary people caught up . . . .
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★★★★☆ What astonishes most about this RSC production of the well-known Roald Dahl story are the razor-sharp performances given by the children in the cast. Tonight, it was Olivia Juno Cleverley’s turn in the spotlight, in her debut professional role as Matilda.
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