★★★★☆ For those not familiar, Balletboyz is a dance company founded in 2000 by a pair of alumni from The Royal Ballet. Their multi-award winning record speaks for itself and it has been with some anticipation that I have been awaiting their newest show.
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★★★☆☆ In 2014, The North Wall ran a summer residency for 26 young people. The culmination was a scratch performance of Fragment, a blend of songs and stories about love, loss and heartache. This has evolved into the production we see today, written by John Hoggarth and directed by Ria Parry, who are also the Co-Artistic Directors of The North Wall.
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★★★☆☆ The odds on Eccleston seemed favourable. To watch him in TV dramas is to be engulfed by the suppressed tension and conflicted emotion that radiate from his large frame. A quality that could well illuminate Shakespeare’s play, which is focused through Macbeth’s mind.
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★★★★☆ We are introduced to the play by Peter Quince, the leader of the Mechanicals, who gives us a rundown of the play, pointing out any similarities to our contemporary lives (‘it’s set in Ancient Greece – a bit like Brighton’) and of course, there is going to be a Royal Wedding.
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★★★☆☆ The cast is led by Jonny Fines as Zack Mayo and Emma Williams as Paula Pokrifki, the factory girl just looking for a way out of a dead end town. Williams gives an outstanding vocal performance, bringing a raw emotion to her performance that lifts the character from the ordinary to the extraordinary.
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★★★★★ Calixto Bieito’s play is a moving piece that stresses the importance of this discussion we too often avoid. Using existing literature and music, the piece follows four people struggling with mental and sexual issues, and the ways they try to cope with their afflictions.
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