★★★★☆ In How The Other Half Loves Ayckbourn is finding his feet, looking around at the landscape of the genre and working out how he can make his mark. The play’s most distinguishing feature is thus the novelty two separate settings being both coterminous and contemporaneous.
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★★★★☆ Million Dollar Quartet is a spirited rockabilly musical, depicting an auspicious spontaneous jam session. At the Sun Records studio in 1956 where they were all discovered, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis all found themselves playing together for the first and only time.
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★★★★☆ In a setting as intimate as the Tobacco Factory provides, the role of the director in an opera becomes arguably, more critical. In what amounts to a thrust (or three quarters round) stage there is no hiding place for the performers; voice alone will not do and acting skills must be up to snuff.
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★★★★☆ In a series of short vignettes, Bye tells the story of a young girl attempting to cross the border into her own country, and of a performance artist called Edward Shorter, who’s trying to find a way to help her and to stand up to the system.
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★★★★☆ The plot in its essentials is of Aeneas the human son of the god Venus, a warrior refugee from the Greek destruction of Troy, intent upon forming a Trojan settlement in Italy: thus fulfilling his destiny as the forefather of the founders of Rome.
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★★★★★ Tackling Karge’s play is no mean feat, and this production is an excellent example of how to make text like this work. This creative ensemble has an incredible amount of talent, and together they have produced something truly memorable: a theatrical event not to be missed.
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