★★★★☆ Running in tandem with harrowing tales of political capitulation and betrayal, Vanessa Redgrave affectionately balances her story with personal tales of her family, centering mostly on her father Sir Michael Redgrave, himself a committed socialist – tracking his friendships

★★★☆☆ The action takes place in an American farmhouse. Designer David Korins has created a convincingly detailed image of rustic comfort, with wood beams, a stone-flagged floor, and wicker furniture . . .

★★★☆☆ Last year would have been Cornish playwright Nick Darke’s 70th birthday. Sadly, he died in 2005, but his works, particularly his plays produced by Kneehigh Theatre in the 1990s, which chimed so closely with their anti-establishment Kernow roots, have become iconic illustrations of Cornish life, Cornish politics.

★★★★★ The play is a rare stage picture of social deprivation that sympathises as it cruelly mocks, disturbing and hilarious by turns and acted out with excoriating honesty by the superb cast. 

★★★★☆ Plunged into a long sleepless night of self-reflection, Lewis is ‘visited’ by three generations of male forebears each bearing harrowing chapters from a story that climbs from the privations of slavery and a harrowing lynching to drunkenness and early death from drug overdose.