★★★★☆ The themes are perfect for our time, dealing with the purity of democracy in a world of ambiguity as politicians and victims of a Civil War come to terms with what peace and reconciliation mean when combined with ongoing power struggles and the basic need to feed the people.
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★★★☆☆ The dancers responded brilliantly and revelled in the fun and liberty of the music . . . In The Upper Room was a perfect programme choice to raise spirits at the end of the night. It would be the one work from the evening that I would enjoy seeing again.
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★★★☆☆ Leo Butler’s adaption is a modernised retelling of the original story. Set in the Middle East, the eponymous English soldier and his wife Marie are struggling to get by. To earn some extra money, Woyzeck takes part in a medical experiment involving a diet of nothing but peas, which slowly drives him insane.
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★★★★★ The stars are Helene Hanff, played by Stefanie Powers and Frank Doel, played by Clive Francis. Hanff is a brusque, kind New Yorker – ‘a poor writer with an antiquarian taste in books’ – who prefers to order her books from London than to try to find what she wants in New York.
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★★★★★ Last night the good burghers of Schloss Süddorf were, by degrees, disorientated, terrified, excited and in one or two extreme cases overjoyed to a state of delirium by the results of Frau F’s demonic experiments.
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★★★★☆ Given the obvious fun Gilbert had satirising the House of Lords and party politics at the turn of the 19th century, it begged the question of what he might he made of Brexit or Trump’s White House? If his other-worldly fairies could delicately lampoon the plodding peers of the upper chamber without inviting opprobrium from the ruling classes then, what fun they could be having now!
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