★★★★★ With a strong story, incredible performances, and creative playfulness on a shoestring, Napoleon Disrobed is not to be missed. It is one of the best things I’ve seen at The REP and sets the bar for other comedic work. Given that Told By An Idiot have been creating this kind of theatre for twenty-five years, they have established a particular style that I long to see more of.
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★★★☆☆ Cilla appears in virtually every scene and the drama depends not just on pure singing ability, but the skill to become a convincing character . . . Kara Lily Hayworth beat thousands of others in nationwide open auditions to get the lead role and a huge amount rests on her narrow shoulders. Audiences will not be disappointed; she is a star in her own right and inhabits Cilla completely.
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★★★★★ Performed in the dark and dank basement tunnels of the Loco Klub that lurk beneath Brunel’s original Temple Meads station, the audience is led through an immersive experience by an extraordinarily talented BOVTS team. . . A step beyond theatre in the round, being this up close and personal to a vampire is something you will not forget in a hurry! Catch it while you can.
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★★★★☆ This is an exploration not just through the hills and dales of a beguiling and sometimes perilous landscape, but through their own equally challenging identity and to get to the heart of what it means to be black and British. The writing triumphs and the performances are powerful. These men walk to assert themselves. Take the journey and see for yourself.
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★★★★★ In a play that fastidiously avoids any hierarchical bias of interest as far as ‘star’ parts are concerned, Kirsty Bushell, has nevertheless produced a lambent Ranyevskaya. Animated in her indolence and with an engaging osculatory incontinence, she has produced a character mesmerized, by the headlights of her own looming destruction, into a crippling inertia
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★★★★☆ The thrust of the drama is whether Stagg can convince Eisenhower to postpone based on his stormy predictions. He freely admits his forecasts are a matter of informed guesswork . . . just better informed guesswork than the altmoded modelling system the Yanks are using by comparison. The premise might seem like a hard-sell but it does, believe it or not, make for a riveting watch.
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