★★★★☆ The Devil’s Violin is a small company blending words and music to create an atmospheric evening where one gets lost in the rhythm of voice and strings. Daniel Morden, the storyteller is a tall, imposing figure in black who holds the audience with his mesmeric voice and countenance.
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★★★★☆ For any one-person performance to mesmerize an audience for 80 minutes without a break is an amazing feat . . . It is clear that Ahmed Tobasi is a remarkable man who has already led an extraordinary life and lived to tell the tale. This also reminds us of the countless people who aren’t so lucky.
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★★★★★ Visually the performance has been called ‘a cross between a Beckett play and a Monty Python sketch’ and certainly the Beckett comparison rings true – think Happy Days, where Winnie is buried to her waist and neck in a mound of earth, or That Time, where the character sits silently and his own voice is heard recalling his past . . . A must-see!
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★★★★★ Luke Wright is a swaggering fop (and I mean that as a compliment). His clothes are a modern take on the threads of a Georgian dandy and he’s tall, but it’s not this that makes his presence too big for this small stage. He’s a poet, but his show isn’t a traditional poetry reading, where an anxious wordsmith shares sheaves of earnest verse.
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★★★★☆ The notion of a one-person show can go either way. When I’m looking for ideas for a show to see, I usually prefer something with more than one person on stage – I like a bit of dialogue; the way two or more people play off each other. However, I had faith in Bea Roberts. Having seen last year’s excellent and memorable And Then Come the Nightjars, I knew that she could write something that would hold a room in thrall
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