★★★★★ The Golem is as old as the human imagination. In Jewish mythology it is a shapeless mass of living stuff formed from the earth. It is Adam without a soul. It is Frankenstein’s creation, it is Capek’s ‘robot’, Tolkien’s malign creature . . . Golem, this timely modern parable, is packed with innovation, imagery, music and thought provoking episodes that fill the ninety minutes with unalloyed theatrical magic.
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★★★★☆ The plot is a simple one; a young boy is bored having to spend nights away at Granny’s consuming a variety of cabbage based dishes, the tedium punctuated only by playing Scrabble and waiting for the inevitable very audible farting. This soon gives way to growing sense of wonder when real life is presented as not all it seems.
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★★★★☆ This is one of those shows, based on a familiar and popular story that will hopefully do a great service in developing a taste for theatre in a young audience. To that end the creative team have done a great job in lifting a story from the page and making it into a theatrical experience that many may well look back on as a seminal visit to a live performance.
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★★★★☆ There are so many levels on which this is enjoyable. If you want engaging and funny audience interaction, it works. If you want farcical comedy and drama on stage with some piping musical numbers (all assembled on the spot), it works.
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★★★☆☆ The Island is played in the round on a sparse stage set with plain lighting; we feel like voyeurs looking down into the cell. The two actors have nothing to hide behind and thanks to strong performances by both we get a real sense of the relationship between the two prisoners.
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★★★★☆ The musical is based on an earlier farce, Birds of a Feather, the bones of which lie close to the surface of the present production. The core structure is a love quadrangle: boy/girl, boy/father, (gay) father/transvestite ‘wife’, transvestite ‘wife’/’son’.
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