★★★☆☆ All the ingredients look tasty enough; a talented cast, a director with all the experience one could want and an award-winning playwright. The designer too has a list of credits as long as your arm. And yet … Sadly no yeast was applied to the ingredients and despite a few moments of breezy turnabout, the mixture failed to rise.
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★★★★☆ Ever innovative, Rambert bring us a programme of three pieces with healthily varied subjects. Having rummaged around in the box marked ‘interesting things’ the three choreographers have produced a clutch of dances linked merely by their breathtaking audacity. . .All in all it is an evening of wit, depth and dazzling technique
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★★★★☆ This is an opera that demands impeccable technique of its singers and the ETO doesn’t disappoint. The bright sound required by Handel and provided by the castratos does present a problem for a modern production with the dearth of such curiosities in these straightened times.
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★★★★☆ Christmas Eve is a timely reminder that, being jealous of our democracy, we must at all times remain vigilant, never assuming the arguments are being made for us or that those charged with protecting us know what it is they protect. It is a well-polished gem of a play with fine acting to set it off.
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★★★★☆ If ever a political play had been crying out for revival this was it. It only needs a revival of Jules Feiffer’s Little Murders, which takes a satirical look at casual slaughter in America and the survey will be complete. As Russell says, perhaps adapting Wordsworth, ‘The past is always with us’.
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