★★★★☆ The production is conceived as a communal trip, an Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, with a bunch of late-sixties hedonists deciding to ‘do’ the play somebody had left lying around. It is a clever device, which nicely sets up the inspired pick ‘n’ mix casting. The resulting ‘trip’ delivers a burlesque on love, desire, gender-identity, class and self-deceit.
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★★★★☆ Martin Luther King who has just given his famous ‘I’ve been to the Mountaintop,‘ speech and is preparing for his next one. It is 3rd April 1968 and we are in Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis where King is ordering room service on the telephone.
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★★★★☆ Life’s a puzzle and full of ups and downs. Especially when people come across others that they just can’t understand. Antler Theatre’s Lands comes via the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe and springs surprises galore as the protagonists transform a deceptively simple absurdist narrative into something more provocative and capable of a multitude of meanings.
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★★★★☆ At a time when the AIDS crisis was at its height in 1983 and Section 28 decreed that no school could teach that homosexuality was acceptable, writer Jonathan Harvey was undeniably brave to depict a gay relationship in positive terms.
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★★★☆☆ Two actors in a film location trailer, one slightly pompous and on the wagon, the other bitter and a practicing lush. The former, Hugh Delavois (Nigel Planer) a veteran and leading artist of all seven of the sci-fi film franchise, ‘Vulcan’, the latter, Gary Savage (Adrian Edmondson) an embittered chum from drama school days with a career on the slide
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★★★☆☆ Sebastian (Robert Lindsay) is a critic with one successful novel under his belt. He is a crusty old leftie, a nudge away from being a curmudgeonly old bore, who has by his own admission for the best part of twenty-eight years been in a loveless marriage, which has nevertheless produced a son.
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