Dixon and Daughters Emma Burnell 26/04/2023 1259Lots about Dixon and Daughters is ever so slightly off. That is both it’s strength and it weakness. Take it’s...
Reviewer's rating The Secret Life of Bees Adi Ginat 25/04/2023 1106‘The Secret Life of Bees’ is a beautiful and moving musical adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd’s novel of the same...
Reviewer's Rating Dancing at Lughnasa Tim Hochstrasser 25/04/2023 1055‘Atmosphere is more real than incident, and everything is simultaneously actual and illusory’. So says, Michael, the adult narrator in...
Reviewer's Rating Animal Tim Hochstrasser 24/04/2023 962‘Animal’ opens at Park200 after an initial run in Manchester and winning the inaugural Through the Mill Playwriting Prize. It...
Reviewer's Rating The Good Person of Szechwan Tim Hochstrasser 23/04/2023 962This is the 80th anniversary year of a play that has become accepted as one of Brecht’s most durable, where...
Reviewer's rating L’Orfeo Opéra-marionnettes Josi Steinfeld 22/04/2023 3516This sole Monaco performance was unique as it was performed entirely by puppets from the renowned Carlo Colla puppet theatre....
Reviewer's rating HAMNET Mel Cooper 22/04/2023 1204The adaptation of the novel Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell is a fine example of ensemble work. Lolita Chakrabarti clearly understands...
Reviewer's Rating Blue Tim Hochstrasser 21/04/2023 1007Given the grim background to this year’s season at ENO it is more than little ironic that the programme has...
Village Idiot Jad Adams 21/04/2023 1132With its fruity language and references to gay sex, trans sex, disabled sex and characters ‘wanking off to Countryfile’, Village...
Reviewer's Rating Blackout Songs Emma Burnell 18/04/2023 1439Anyone who has ever drunk to blackout – i.e. forgotten what they did the night before – will know that...