★★★★☆ Each show is different and given an identifying number: this one is People Show 137. It’s tricky to categorise them and that’s probably how they like it. I won’t be the first to describe them as surreal, Pythonesque, but they started in 1966, 3 years before Monty Python.
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★★★☆☆ The original Faust myth, based on the historical person of Johann Faust, concerns a man who prefers earthly to religious knowledge and enters into a pact with the devil for unlimited knowledge and a fair dollop of earthly pleasure. Small surprise then that he has continued to be the inspiration of numerous artistic works.
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★★★☆☆ It’s a highly entertaining, hour-long show and Doherty is certainly skilful at what he does in managing to portray such a variety of characters. My favourites were the yuppie prince, the cabin boy and the bug-eyed monster. The accents, whilst corny, are effective and amusing.
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★★★★☆ Created and performed by the tremendous Hattie Eason, Cameron Sharp, and Rebecca Glendenning we explore how three very different offspring interact with their mothers from childhood to the current day. The evening starts out in rather brash fashion with the three actors taking to microphones and strutting their stuff in a shouty song.
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★★★★☆ This is a dazzling ballet, chock-full of spectacle, high drama and wonderful dancing. The idea of a girl condemned to dance non-stop comes originally from Hans Christian Andersen’s sternly moral story of a peasant girl called Karen, who is so enamoured of her new red shoes that she dares to wear them to church.
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★★★☆☆ Gina is in a tight spot. Having thrown out her thug of a husband, she now has a loan shark breathing down her neck because her job flogging makeup won’t pay. Without any other options that do not involve exposing her and her daughter to violent men, Gina is taken under the wing of the local sex workers who might at least help her out of debt.
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