THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GREY at the Alma, Bristol

★★★☆☆ The Alma Tavern’s own in-house Schoolhouse Productions latest classic text visits the deliciously scandalous morality tale, packed with humorous aphorisms. In a new version by Wilde’s grandson Merlin Holland and John O’Connor the action is mildly updated to modern day, but not by all that much.

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DRAG ON at the Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol

★★★☆☆ James Morgan wants to tell us a story, his story from dragons to drag artist. He collected dragons as a child, model dragons of all types. He tells us about mythical dragons, wyverns and St George. We see projections of virtual dragons in game culture. We learn what the word ‘dragon’ means in urban slang.

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STAND AND DELIVER at the Alma, Bristol

★★★☆☆ The company work well together handling multiple parts with aplomb that comes from a careful attention to stagecraft and continuity. This is an entertaining romp that will appeal to those that love their theatre laced with a healthy dose of surrealism and the absurd. It certainly stands on its own two feet, but doesn’t quite deliver all the goods.

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MARY STUART at Bath Theatre Royal

★★★☆☆ When you have a couple of top drawer actresses each capable of playing either lead in such a play as this the opportunity arises for the added novelty of spinning a coin to decide which of the two will play which role on the night. Last night Lia Williams was Mary and Juliet Stephenson, Elizabeth.

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