★★★★★ Following its successful première at the Chichester Festival last month, this lovingly crafted revival of Terence Rattigan’s retelling of the real-life story of George Archie-Shee, a 13-year-old naval cadet accused of stealing a postal order and his father’s fight to clear his name at any cost, is a must-see.
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★★★★☆ German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig’s play is clever on many levels. Most keenly it illustrates how easily fascism can slip under the door, seducing unwary mindsets with its nationalistic appeal, seductive old school concepts of chivalry and faux arguments about natural law, art and entitlement
Read More★★★☆☆ In this Original Theatre Company production, director, Alastair Whatley, has gone to some lengths to put some differentiating flesh on the Wildean bones and steered his cast into some interesting character choices.
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★★★★☆ This is a classic comedy written by John Godber back in 1984, which won awards, was made into a film and is still frequently performed today. Fingersmiths is a physical theatre company which performs 20th century plays with deaf and hearing actors, using British Sign Language and spoken word.
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★★★★☆ If I do have a reservation about this show, then it is that there is no point to Spamalot whatsoever. It is utterly meaningless. But should it be anything else? It is an absolutely hilarious way to spend a couple of hours. And that is that.
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★★★☆☆ At its core this is a play about two people who turn against Nature. Lady Macbeth denies her own womanly instincts, and Macbeth allows his ambition to subvert his soldierly ideals of loyal service. They turn all Scotland into a hellish ‘blasted heath’
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