Joyce El-Khoury’s visceral performance as a scorned Elizabeth I provided the flame throughout this WNO production of Donizetti’s dark tale of unrequited love, jealously and pride. El-Khoury raged across the stage, portrayed as a lethal spider at the centre of her own web.
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★★★★☆ People singing about shoes? Not a particularly auspicious subject for a night’s entertainment you might think. But following a sluggish start, Kinky Boots tears off the humdrum and delivers a mad musical, peeling away prejudice while serving up a thunderingly good time.
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★★★★☆ Plunged into a long sleepless night of self-reflection, Lewis is ‘visited’ by three generations of male forebears each bearing harrowing chapters from a story that climbs from the privations of slavery and a harrowing lynching to drunkenness and early death from drug overdose.
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★★★★★ After welcoming the audience personally at the door and offering everyone a cup of tea and a hobnob biscuit, Lockyer begins his story. He was a successful actor for the RSC, playing Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet at Stratford. He had some hours to kill before a performance.
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★★★★☆ A hit when it was released in 1988, the original American comedy drama road movie won four Oscars, one going to Dustin Hoffman for his portrayal of the autistic savant Raymond Babbitt. In this revival of Dan Gordon’s stage adaptation of Barry Morrow’s screenplay, there is virtually no actual ‘road’ . . .
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