Charlie is an online English tutor, living alone in a small Idaho town. Charlie is morbidly obese almost to the point of caricature. We are directed (we might say led by the nose) to the meaning of the metaphor that sits at the heart of the piece by a short essay about Moby Dick . . . This is another of those plays we can put on the shelf marked ‘Ustinov Wonders’
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★★★★★ Two excellent productions from the Welsh National Opera’s Spring Season at the Hippodrome in Bristol. 5 Stars for DON GIOVANNI and 4 Stars for LA FORZA DEL DESTINO
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★★★★★ With a strong story, incredible performances, and creative playfulness on a shoestring, Napoleon Disrobed is not to be missed. It is one of the best things I’ve seen at The REP and sets the bar for other comedic work. Given that Told By An Idiot have been creating this kind of theatre for twenty-five years, they have established a particular style that I long to see more of.
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★★★★★ Performed in the dark and dank basement tunnels of the Loco Klub that lurk beneath Brunel’s original Temple Meads station, the audience is led through an immersive experience by an extraordinarily talented BOVTS team. . . A step beyond theatre in the round, being this up close and personal to a vampire is something you will not forget in a hurry! Catch it while you can.
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★★★★★ In a play that fastidiously avoids any hierarchical bias of interest as far as ‘star’ parts are concerned, Kirsty Bushell, has nevertheless produced a lambent Ranyevskaya. Animated in her indolence and with an engaging osculatory incontinence, she has produced a character mesmerized, by the headlights of her own looming destruction, into a crippling inertia
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