Author: Simon Bishop

Thoroughly Modern Millie at Bristol Hippodrome

★★★☆☆ Millie’s ‘modern’ is to realize that she ain’t going nowhere without a rich guy to give her the life she wants, so she turns up the gold digging dial. In a scene that could have come out of a dating guide written by Donald Trump,

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GREASE at the Bristol Hippodrome

★★★★☆ Looking for the perfect antidote to Trump, Brexit and a second general election in two years? Well, here you go! Anything that can light up a miserable, wet Monday evening in Bristol as effectively as this definitely has the necessary medicinal properties . . . For some simple feel-good, escapist razzmatazz, head on down to the Hippodrome.

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WAITING FOR GOD on tour

★★★☆☆ While a media storm envelopes Theresa May’s U-turn on care provision, Michael Aitken’s Waiting for God suddenly finds greater relevance , , , Nichola McAuliffe is a perfect Trent – at as much ease with her cantankerous nature as she was with her fleeting vulnerability. Her’s was the performance to savour while others sometimes dipped perilously close to pantomime.

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