★★★★☆ Star Flower is Whispering Woods’ new show – this time featuring Nina Bambrey and her creative performance partner Rory Bennett, who explore a dreamlike journey, a compassionate shared adventure, using aerial acrobatics, circus, dance and puppetry within a theatre environment.
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★★★☆☆ Despite my reservations, I can see why Motown The Musical is a hugely successful show that has triumphed on Broadway and in the West End. Motown’s music deserves to be remembered and celebrated, and for those who love juke-box musicals this show is an absolute must-see.
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★★★★☆ The action starts in a Theban ping-pong parlour, where the young Hercules is proving to be unbeatable. He is urged on by a shouty Zeus, the epitome of ‘competitive dad’, who believes that there is nothing worse than being a loser.
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★★★★☆ It is almost a fable – although don’t expect unequivocal simplicity: Timon exhausts her fortune with ridiculous generosity. Then, impoverished and instantly friendless she behaves equally excessively, living as a hermit in a cave, developing a total hatred of all mankind to the extent of financing an attack on Athens, before dying.
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In a year packed with good things it is perhaps surprising that three productions by a drama school, namely the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, should dominate the list which our reviewers have compiled of their favourite shows from the past twelve months. Continue reading for the full run-down and round-up. . .
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★★★★★ With a cast of pantomime veterans and newbies, the whole company instantly puts you in a good mood; you cannot help but smile even from the opening number. Birmingham based panto debutant Meera Syal clearly enjoys herself playing the magical and forgetful mermaid . . .
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