★★★★☆ Summer Rolls, like the dish, reveals more than is suggested at first bite. It is in fact a fascinating insight into a family’s struggles with identity. Although the themes covered are ambitious, it is fantastic that the voice of the Vietnamese community is at last heard in UK theatres.
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★★★★★ Shakespeare’s Globe on Tour does a wonderful job with this production. As always, they keep a stripped back stage – two levels with plenty of doors for comings and goings; and the costumes are simple – each actor wears the same basic outfit, draped with different robes to distinguish characters.
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★★★★★ With ten minutes to go before ‘curtain up’, three or four doughty Shakespeare fans, looking more like fell walkers than theatre goers, squelched their way up to the wooden beams that provided rudimentary seating, light brown mud adding greatly to the weight of their shoes.
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★★★★☆ 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
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★★★★★ Against a lovingly-detailed set that evoked the Paris Metro, with its deco panelling and art nouveau lettering, and warmed by Elliot Griggs’ deliciously sympathetic lighting, we were instantly thrown into the noisy French capital. Audrey Brisson immediately stood out as the naïve, enigmatic Amélie.
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★★★★☆ This production of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple has a simple formula: award-winning musical plus superb cast equals fantastic show. The logic is almost faultless. What is more, last night’s performance surpassed the formula to give a highly appreciative audience a production that was greater than the sum of its constituent parts.
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