★★★★☆ Harry Clayton-Wright, the actor, stand-up, whatever, spends a lot of time sitting at a table making cucumber sandwiches for the audience – which of course they couldn’t eat because of Covid.
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★★★★☆ At times Copenhagen is perhaps a little too pedagogic, and in the early stages of the play some expository passages are heavy-going. It is also, perhaps, a fraction too long. But it is an immensely absorbing play, and in this well-directed and superbly performed production, it is not to be missed.
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★★★☆☆ The story of Mary Bryant is hardly a story for our time, capital punishment for what we might now call misdemeanours and commutability via transportation have gone the way of slavery and child labour . . .
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★★★★☆ This is the latest production by three-piece ‘The Devil’s Violin’. This story-telling musical trio are led by narrator Daniel Morden in a series of atmospheric, sometimes chilling but for the most part redemptive, magical stories.
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★★★★☆ The Everyman’s opening performance is Jenny Wren Productions’ small scale adaptation of Little Women. The setup is an immediately interesting and ambitious take on the sizeable novel with its large cast of characters, as the play is a sort of two-hander
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★★★★★ I had imagined that a poetry recital, albeit one directed and delivered by Ralph Fiennes, would prove to be a relatively low-key return to live theatre. I could not have been more wrong, for there is much in his Four Quartets that is simply astonishing.
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