★★★☆☆ Fulfilling a personal ambition to write and perform in his own show, David Edgar, perhaps best known his memorable RSC production of The Life and Times of Nicholas Nickleby at the Aldwych Theatre in 1980, and who cut his theatrical teeth laying into the National Front, has been intrigued by the idea of a ‘letter to the future’ conversation with himself
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★★★☆☆ All’s fair in love… or is it? William Boyd’s play examines the ironies lurking behind the respectable façade of marriage, where frustrations can bubble up and express themselves through seemingly innocuous rows about the mundane – and raw truths can sometimes spew out like lava, scorching those nearest, and dearest.
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★★★★★ 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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