Torn loyalties are at the heart of this National Theatre touring production – both in the story and the delivery.
Explore MoreYou might go to a Mark Thomas gig expecting to be harangued, to be
heckled — but you don’t go expecting to have your heart toyed with.
With his latest show Bravo Figaro, you should.
How do you deal with a story where the key action is the heroine sleeping for 100 years? If you’re Matthew Bourne, you shove the slumber in the interval and sex up the narrative with vampire fairies.
Explore MoreComedy can be an odd beast. Sometimes you want to be surprised and
energised with new material, but with John Shuttleworth it’s definitely
familiarity that keeps the audience coming back.
The death of a child prodigy leaves a chilling mark behind in this tightly-wrought production of an Alan Ayckbourn classic.
Explore More“If the Lord is watching, the least we can do is be entertaining,” says one of the characters in Five Marys Waiting – and while I can’t speak for God, the audience definitely found them to be.
Explore MoreWhen Hamlet finishes, nearly everyone is dead. The rest, it is
said, is silence.
This Royal Shakespeare Company production of Julius Caesar transports the drama to Africa, in an attempt to emphasise the tribal and fractious nature of the play.
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Shakespeare’s play of star-crossed lovers is one of unfortunate timing as much as anything else: for the Icarus Theatre Collective hitting town at the same time as the RSC makes for some unhappy comparisons.
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What do you give the comic who has everything?
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Sean Hughes’ disarmingly honest and very funny one man show about the death of his father is a revelation, and an impressive return to form for the Irish comedian.
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He describes himself as a “national trinket” but to the crowd at Norwich’s Theatre Royal I’m sure treasure would be a more accurate label for Julian Clary.
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I wish my one liners were as good as Stewart Francis’.
Explore MoreFrom the glitzy, gaudy, sleazy opening you wouldn’t guess
what unfolds in Cabaret. But this is a story — and a production — that runs
the full gamut from cheeky humour to unspeakable horror, with the only
constant delight the superb performances of a top notch cast.
Romance and Adventure was what the tour title promised; what was
delivered was closer to angst.