★★★★☆ Let It Be aims to be ‘The Beatles reunion you never got to see’. The creative team behind this show has gone to extraordinary lengths to achieve a kind of historical accuracy that will appeal to anyone who fondly remembers the days when the Fab Four were the dominant force in popular music. There are moments in Let It Be that are eerily like being taken back in time.
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★★★★☆ Six figures pull and push, writhe and wrestle, arching over each other’s backs until, one by one, five of them fall to the floor as if dead. The sixth does not fall, and he is the only white performer. In an intensely gripping hour of physical theatre, Freeman tells six stories, threaded together by recurring themes of institutional racism and injustice.
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★★★☆☆ As a chirpy musical Fly Eddie Fly certainly endeared itself to the audience. Supplemented in parts by the Company and members of the Everyman’s Youth Theatre, most of the musical heavy-lifting was performed by Nik Howden as Eddie and Becks Grant-Jones as his mother.
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★★★★★ Oxford-based Human Story Theatre is a company with a unique approach to theatre. Firstly, each of their plays must have a social conscience; they have to deal with an issue that may have some resonance to problems people might face in everyday life, such as domestic violence, alcoholism, or, as in this case, Alzheimer’s disease.
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★★★☆☆ The play starts in a wartime waste ground. Four young girls gather to play out imaginary games. They like to scare each other with ideas of killing their mothers or summoning the dead or bragging about going to the ‘boys’ den’. Life itself seems a threat, yet full of possibility.
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★★★☆☆ How My Light Is Spent is a poetic, optimistic and magical story, set in circumstances that are all too grimly real. It tells the story of a man in his thirties, Jimmy, who has lost his job in Newport and who has very little prospect of finding a new one.
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