★★★★★ If it’s sold out – and it soon will be, I suggest that you beg, steal or borrow a ticket for this, the funniest, most inventive and exciting comedy for years . . . Like a similar show: The 39 Steps, it will run and run and have revival after revival.
Read More★★★★★ This year’s theme for the festival is “Europe drawing the line: Physical and Imaginary Borders”. Many of the performance were looking at the borders that are being put up across Europe not only to keep people out, but also the borders that can affect us on an emotional level.
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★★★★★ It is a remarkably selfless and accomplished piece of work on the theme of loss and loneliness, which reaffirms our faith in the power of storytelling using little but highly developed talent in a darkened room with a receptive audience.
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★★★★★ The Golem is as old as the human imagination. In Jewish mythology it is a shapeless mass of living stuff formed from the earth. It is Adam without a soul. It is Frankenstein’s creation, it is Capek’s ‘robot’, Tolkien’s malign creature . . . Golem, this timely modern parable, is packed with innovation, imagery, music and thought provoking episodes that fill the ninety minutes with unalloyed theatrical magic.
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This has been a stimulating Directors’ Cuts season, and the best has been kept until last. Crave is an extraordinary prose-poem for which writer Sarah Kane supplied no setting, no stage directions and no descriptions of its four characters, . .
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