★★★★☆ This takes as its starting point the idea that Bram Stoker’s famous novel is a romanticised version of real-life events. Professor Van Helsing is furious with Stoker and is determined to put the record straight, so he has hired three actors to help him explain what really happened.
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★★★☆☆ The play starts with a double dose of fiction – a fiction within a fiction; a fictional couple conjured up by a fictional writer whose fictional wife plays the fictional wife of…well you get the idea. All the signposts tell us we are in Stoppard territory. . . This is vintage Stoppard with all the trademark wordplay, philosophising, clever plotting and complex characters.
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★★★★☆ In this highly charged and often hilarious one man show about an episode in his own life Mark Lockyer lets us into his head and allows us to watch the increasingly awful mess he was getting into.
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★★☆☆☆ The nub of the thing is The Man’s (Jack Hammett) relationship with a sequence of women, each of whom has been brought to the retreat for the purposes of seduction and who in turn are annoyed to find evidence of the others – namely a drawing of a woman in a red dress.
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★★★★☆ This is, by any measure, an intelligent, satisfying and enjoyable reworking of Pinter. Pinter without the ‘esque’ perhaps, yet in Mr Naiambana one in which the portrayal of an iconic character will stand as measure for those that follow.
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★★★★☆ Heather is a short and fiendishly clever two-hander structured in three distinct parts . . . Charlotte Melia is fascinating in the title role, peeling away layer after layer to reveal… what? I’m not telling. Heather lasts less than an hour, but it will leave you thinking for much longer.
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