You 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.