Bristol Old Vic Theatre School’s THE WIZARD OF OZ at the Redgrave Theatre, Bristol
★★★★☆ You will be hard pressed to find a better show this Christmas. Now we are all friends of Dorothy . . . .
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THE OPEN HOUSE at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
★★★☆☆ All the ingredients look tasty enough; a talented cast, a director with all the experience one could want and an award-winning playwright. The designer too has a list of credits as long as your arm. And yet … Sadly no yeast was applied to the ingredients and despite a few moments of breezy turnabout, the mixture failed to rise.
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RESERVOIR MOGS at the Wardrobe in Bristol
★★★☆☆ It’s the time of the year for Christmas shows and this includes the Wardrobe Theatre’s alternative offering. This time the unlikely mash up is between Quentin Tarantino’s 1992 film Reservoir Dogs and Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s musical Cats, based on the writing of TS Eliot . . . Fans of the festive fusion will not be disappointed.
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ROMEO AND JULIET at Bristol Hippodrome
★★★★☆ It is not hard to see why a tale of youngsters in opposition to an oppressive older generation might have appealed to Rudolf Nureyev, and it is his interpretation of Romeo and Juliet that we see in this English National Ballet production . . . it is Jurgita Dronina’s Juliet that is the outstanding performance of the evening. She is utterly captivating.
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IT’S OK, I’M DEALING WITH IT at the Wardrobe, Bristol
★★★★☆ Cristina MacKerron and Chess Dillon-Reams are the Hiccup project: a Brighton-based comedy dance/theatre duo. With this show their aim is to attack and expose the ‘keep calm and carry on’ culture of modern life.
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WELSH NATIONAL OPERA Autumn Season at Bristol Hippodrome
★★★★☆ DIE FLEDERMAUS takes us back in time to when it was good to be a wealthy man, when patting bottoms was considered to be a bit of a lark. When, for the moneyed classes enough champagne would open almost any (ahem) opportunity.
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