★★★★★ I really enjoyed We Are Ian, which is surprising, for I do not dance; never have, really. I suspected that I was the last person who should have been asked to review a show about the Acid House music of the 1980s . . .
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★★★☆☆ Trevor Fox and Josie Lawrence together make this play come to life, full of wit and humour, however a lot of the comedic value of the piece was lost, as the actors seemed to rush through lines without giving the audience a moment to consider what was happening . . . does not fail to bring the weird and the strange together to create an absurd night of theatre.
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★★★☆☆ It tells the story of Tristan, who lives with his young daughter Kelsey on a boat moored on the Helford River. Tristan makes a somewhat precarious living by stealing from all the local second homes that lie unoccupied for months while their wealthy owners are ‘up North’ in places like Kent or Surrey. He is careful to take anonymous items such as iPads and the like; if missed, they will not be traceable.
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★★★☆☆ The play focuses on two people and their chance meeting on the streets with a dialogue conducted over just one night. Dan, masterfully played by Jared Morgan, is a rich voiced, intelligent, articulate philosopher who knows the street and because he knows it so well, he fears it and the people who populate it.
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★★★☆☆ I suppose you could say the stage version of Anita and Me was a long time coming. It is more than twenty years since Meera Syal’s debut novel first appeared and fifteen years since the film version. Tanika Gupta’s adaptation is now on tour after premiering at Birmingham Rep, before a run at Stratford East, a couple of years ago.
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★★★★☆ This is comedy of manners toughened up for the twenty first century. The tone is set by Jean Chan’s bleak modernist set against which, like animals pacing out their neuroses in an old fashioned zoo, the characters are paraded for our amusement . . . The Ustinov has done it again in presenting us with outstanding European theatre that deserves and ought to get, wider public recognition.
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