★★★★☆ It would be easy to read the play as merely a critique of the South African apartheid regime, but that comfortable option would be to overlook the ever-present dangers that seep out with depressing regularity from the dung pit of far right factions

★★★★☆ Tom Mothersdale’s creation is a dark, impulsively malevolent thing.  A bustling, misshapen upstart, swooping around the stage like a balletic crab, his pincers jabbing and snipping at anything that gets in his way. He is an actor quite at home in his expressive body which, articulate as it is articulated, gives physical expression to a twisted mind.

★★★☆☆ This powerful play is set against the background of the Black Civil Rights campaigns in Bristol in the sixties. With recent publicity about the Windrush generation the play is particularly relevant at the moment.

★★★★☆ The action starts in a Theban ping-pong parlour, where the young Hercules is proving to be unbeatable. He is urged on by a shouty Zeus, the epitome of ‘competitive dad’, who believes that there is nothing worse than being a loser.

★★★★☆ Christmas time is a very special time of year and lots of people have their first ever trip to the theatre to see a Christmas show. And if you love this brilliant show perhaps mummy and daddy will take you to see something else at the theatre.