★★★☆☆ Jonathan O’Boyle’s panelled set with the great face of Big Ben looming behind sets us firmly in Westminster, whilst the on-stage band locate us in time with songs from the period. All that was missing was any reference to the overt misogyny and bullying that has emerged being no less of an institution in the Mother of Parliaments.
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★★★★☆ German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig’s play is clever on many levels. Most keenly it illustrates how easily fascism can slip under the door, seducing unwary mindsets with its nationalistic appeal, seductive old school concepts of chivalry and faux arguments about natural law, art and entitlement
Read More★★★☆☆ In this Original Theatre Company production, director, Alastair Whatley, has gone to some lengths to put some differentiating flesh on the Wildean bones and steered his cast into some interesting character choices.
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★★☆☆☆ The show suffered from being under rehearsed and the actors looked uncomfortable at times, though by the time it goes on the road it will no doubt have the opportunity to tighten up and relax. What was written as a bit of a lark has some nice ideas whilst a bit more of a guiding hand is needed to harness the flashes of creative potential.
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★★★★☆ The two principals, Mr.Vadim Lolenko and Ms Natalya Romanova have achieved a technical assurance with each other that produces, in their lakeside pas de deux, a filigree delicacy that perfectly matches the melancholic mood of the bewitched princess, Odette, and her cohort of swans.
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