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We Will Hear the Angels review – five characters in search of connection
Multi-art form company Magnetic North celebrate 25 years with a drifting musical journey that moves from isolation to belonging
Clare Brennan
02, Feb, 2025 @10:30 AM

A Man for All Seasons review – Martin Shaw excels in Robert Bolt’s timeless Tudor morality play
Shaw conveys both the public and private Thomas More in a period-perfect if patchy production of Bolt’s 1960 play of power and corruption
Clare Brennan
26, Jan, 2025 @11:30 AM

La Pendue: La Manékine review: puppets and dreams create an utterly strange fairytale
French company La Pendue’s MimeLondon curtain-raiser reimagines a Brothers Grimm tale with puppets and a one-man band
Clare Brennan
19, Jan, 2025 @5:30 AM

Twelfth Night review – a musically uplifting, concept-heavy RSC production
Shakespeare’s fleet-footed romance is somewhat constrained by Prasanna Puwanarajah’s direction, yet there are memorable moments
Clare Brennan
12, Jan, 2025 @11:30 AM

Aladdin review – wishes do come true
A stand-in Genie saves the day in a magical production of the age-old story that has audience members young and old suspending disbelief
Clare Brennan
22, Dec, 2024 @11:00 AM

The Borrowers review – Mary Norton’s classic brought to vivid little-and-large life
The audience sees above and below the floorboards – with a little help from puppets – as Mark Babych’s production cleverly plays with scale
Clare Brennan
15, Dec, 2024 @11:30 AM

The Three Musketeers review – a swashbuckler without a dramatic cutting edge
Theresa Heskins’s Dumas adaptation provides fantastic action yet reduces the scheming servant Milady to a plot device
Clare Brennan
01, Dec, 2024 @11:30 AM

The Sound of Music review – a joyous blast of song and hope that speaks to today
This captivating production of the evergreen musical is a fitting swansong from Pitlochry’s outgoing artistic director, Elizabeth Newman
Clare Brennan
24, Nov, 2024 @11:30 AM

Kenrex review – co-writer Jack Holden plays an entire town in ‘true’ crime thriller
Holden and Ed Stambollouian’s one-man drama based on a real-life murder in 80s America uses film tropes to great effect – but it plays with the facts too
Clare Brennan
10, Nov, 2024 @11:30 AM

Summer 1954 review – Rattigan double bill packs an intellectual and emotional punch
Men struggling to hide their feelings are uncloaked in James Dacre’s astute revival of the playwright’s Table Number Seven and The Browning Version
Clare Brennan
03, Nov, 2024 @11:30 AM

The New Real review – the spin doctors fight it out in David Edgar’s sweeping political satire
Two American strategists compete to influence an eastern European election in a nuanced new play that suffers from tackling too many subjects
Clare Brennan
27, Oct, 2024 @11:30 AM

Becoming Nancy review – 70s-set coming-out musical radiates optimism
Terry Ronald’s true-life tale of a bullied gay teenager who prevails in the school production of Oliver! is performed with affecting verve
Clare Brennan
20, Oct, 2024 @10:30 AM
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