★★★★☆ I warmly recommend seeing this play – it’s rich and nuanced, and a fascinating entry point to Dickens’s world of the courts and the poverty and fog of the London streets. You might even, like me, be inspired to pick up a copy of the original novel (after all, you are in a bookshop).
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★★★★☆ The story is set in a family home and a secondary school in Ballinatoom, a fictional small town in West Cork, Ireland. The first half introduces us to the characters and sets up the key event, the rape of 18-year old Emma, played by Lauren Coe. It is a hot, hopeful summer of sport and sexual awakening . . .
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★★★★☆ The final tour is made up of several newer works, remaining true to its origins by concentrating on classical pieces with the odd relatively contemporary one.
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★★★★★ This show is a hoot, or perhaps that should be a honk or a quack. Yet it all starts very quietly, for we are presented with the romantic vista of a tranquil lake, edged by silver birch trees . . .
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★★★★☆ Romantics Anonymous is highly entertaining, though the plot has pretty much run is course by the interval, and the second half consists of a repetition of the same will-they-or-won’t-they theme. It’s rather old-fashioned in many ways, and its combination of wit, romance and dance is very reminiscent of the Astaire and Rogers musicals of the 1930’s.
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★★★☆☆ Laura arrives at her father’s croft with her older lover Suzanne, determined to have a romantic break. Isolated from the modern world, the couple’s squabbling soon gives way to dredging up the hidden history of the croft which seems to linger in its foundations.
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