★★★★☆ Shakespeare, more so than any other playwright, has a talent for transcending time and place in his writing. His characters are so real, they continue to come alive on the modern stage, and allow twenty-first century audiences to see their own world reflected back in a play written 400 years ago.
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★★★★★ It would be difficult to fault this play in any particular: the writing, acting, directing, setting and lighting are all of the highest order. There are playwrights who, having reached a kind of mastery over their art can begin to play with the audience’s expectations.
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★★★★★ Touching the Void dramatizes the autobiographical account of Joe Simpson’s near fatal experience during the climb of the Siula Grande mountain. As with most real life stories where ultimate death is averted the trick is in driving the pace and tension so that the outcome is still kept uncertain. This production provides heart stopping moments along with shovelfuls of snow and ice.
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★★★★☆ Pop Music is a show for anyone who loves pop, anyone who can recite spice girls lyrics word perfect or can remember all the dance routines to Beyoncé. This show contains so much joy and heart break, it will have you shedding a tear one minute and laughing the next.
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★★★☆☆ The play as much as the film is framed as equal parts engaging comedy-drama as raucous girls’ night out. I personally was more there for the former but there’s no shame in being a full-throated champion of the latter. The film version was welcomed to near universal acclaim and this is stage version is a worthy follow-up.
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★★★★★ I have said this before, and I will say it again, there is great value in seeing something different in the theatre. It may be nice to rewatch classics such as Les Miserables, but if we linger on their nostalgia, gems like Taj Express won’t get their time in the limelight.
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