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★★★★☆ Baal is the picaresque story concerning the history of a dissolute anti-hero, an outsider who through a particular genius gains a mythical cult status - something which no doubt attracted David Bowie to ...

★★★★★ Not everything is easy to understand, but there is power in ambiguity as the audience is allowed to make up their own mind and not be spoon fed explanations.  Gecko manage to pull off a stunning show, w...

★★★★☆ It would be easy to read the play as merely a critique of the South African apartheid regime, but that comfortable option would be to overlook the ever-present dangers that seep out with depressing regul...

★★★★☆ Tom Mothersdale’s creation is a dark, impulsively malevolent thing.  A bustling, misshapen upstart, swooping around the stage like a balletic crab, his pincers jabbing and snipping at anything that ge...

★★★☆☆ This powerful play is set against the background of the Black Civil Rights campaigns in Bristol in the sixties. With recent publicity about the Windrush generation the play is particularly relevant at t...

★★★★☆ The action starts in a Theban ping-pong parlour, where the young Hercules is proving to be unbeatable. He is urged on by a shouty Zeus, the epitome of ‘competitive dad’, who believes that there is n...

★★★★☆ Christmas time is a very special time of year and lots of people have their first ever trip to the theatre to see a Christmas show. And if you love this brilliant show perhaps mummy and daddy will take ...

★★★★☆ It would be difficult to reinterpret a story with such a strong and clear message. Notwithstanding, Tom Morris has deconstructed the tale with half an eye on contemporary Britain, putting it back togethe...

★★★★☆ The production is conceived as a communal trip, an Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, with a bunch of late-sixties hedonists deciding to ‘do’ the play somebody had left lying around. It is a clever device,...

★★★★★ Touching the Void dramatizes the autobiographical account of Joe Simpson’s near fatal experience during the climb of the Siula Grande mountain. As with most real life stories where ultimate death is av...

★★★★☆ Bernard Pomerance’s play premiered over forty years ago and since then it has garnered many awards, though some critics have been distinctly unhappy about one of its key features. Unlike the well-know...

★★★★☆ The themes are perfect for our time, dealing with the purity of democracy in a world of ambiguity as politicians and victims of a Civil War come to terms with what peace and reconciliation mean when comb...