★★★★☆ 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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★★★★★ The show is full of spectacular aerial scenes but also simple beautiful moments like when Shaena Brandel dusts the rosin off her hands, creating a magical cloud of dust lit against the dark. There were many of these. The climax of the show is wonderful but bittersweet because you never want it to end.
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★★★★☆ Boiler suited and ‘up for it’ the team of four cleaners from Sparkle and Shine find themselves obliged to take a leading part in the greatest heist of the twentieth century having innocently gone to a remote farmhouse to clean up after the real crooks, post robbery.
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★★★★☆ Having triumphed last year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Two Man Show comes to Portland Square Bristol at the start of a nationwide tour. In a seventy-five-minute mash-up of song, dance and drama it takes a highly energetic and occasionally bewildering look at masculinity and patriarchy.
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★★★☆☆ The fantastical, whimsical device of a magical piano that makes all who hear it start to dance has no small element of a fairy story, but without the darker tones of, say, Hans Anderson’s, The Red Shoes. Today we can only marvel at the success such a piece of silliness had on its first outing in the early 1950’s.
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