★★★★☆ Let It Be aims to be ‘The Beatles reunion you never got to see’. The creative team behind this show has gone to extraordinary lengths to achieve a kind of historical accuracy that will appeal to anyone who fondly remembers the days when the Fab Four were the dominant force in popular music. There are moments in Let It Be that are eerily like being taken back in time.

★★★☆☆ The play starts in a wartime waste ground. Four young girls gather to play out imaginary games. They like to scare each other with ideas of killing their mothers or summoning the dead or bragging about going to the ‘boys’ den’. Life itself seems a threat, yet full of possibility.

★★★★☆ In Louis de Bernières’ epic tale of love and war set in the Greek island of Cephalonia during the Second World War, he seeks to make the social every bit as important as the political history. Within the grand sweep of military operations are the lives of ordinary people caught up . . . .

★★★★★ It is the story of a dutiful housewife whose day is filled with domestic drudgery, and a husband who appears content to have her attend to his every need.  Yet he is by no means the villain of this story, for this is a lifestyle choice that she has freely made.  But can a lifestyle be a proper substitute for real life?