With Storm Gareth raging outside, there wasn’t much need for simulated wind and rain to open this oppressive and claustrophobic version of Macbeth, but still it came.
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This stunning 90-minute monologue rescues Virginia Woolf’s tale from the stale confines of gender studies and treats it for what it is: a bloody good yarn.
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In the afterglow of the recent film sequel to Mary Poppins, this new one-hander play is a gloriously British evening of gentle and poignant comedy.
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Opening the first night of his tour with a two-day stint at Norwich Playhouse, Ed Gamble explains his show’s title is influenced by an incident last January when he and three other comics got stranded in New York because of heavy snow.
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The best theatre is about magic: making the impossible happen. Sound Idea’s production of Singin’ In The Rain does just that and if you’re in the front two rows you’re likely to get quite wet too.
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This was a gig that could have been created just for Norwich: a storytelling comedian who not only delivered a great set, but asked for notes too.
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Norwich audiences are notoriously polite so to provoke half a dozen people to walk out midway through a show is a strange sort of triumph; if there had been an interval, the body count would undoubtedly have been higher.
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It wasn’t until she got the audience on their feet that Deva Mahal really came alive.
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Skulking on stage in his skinny jeans,
white t-shirt, and fulsome beard, David McAlmont cuts an unprepossessing
figure.
A man’s struggle with dementia was the canvas for this astounding play without (many) words: a rich, adventurous, and deeply impressive production where every movement was deliberate and delicious.
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Tom Allen’s star is on the rise: he is a regular on TV panel shows, the host of Channel 4’s Bake Off: The Professionals spin off, and now on a nationwide tour with sell-out dates – including Wednesday night’s stop in Norwich.
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You can have to work hard to impress a Sunday evening audience, but Joe Lycett did just that with this rescheduled Norwich Playhouse show.
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There’s one word that overwhelming sums up the comedy of The Horne Section: daft.
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Are there any taboos left? Apparently so, if the reception for this monologue written by an anonymous woman but read aloud by a man is any indication.
Explore MoreThis tour was supposed to only take him to places beginning with M or W, so his stop in Norwich was unexpected.
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