I like comedy. I like it a lot. I like musicals too. Musical comedies, I absolutely love, therefore, so much so that this is the second one I have seen this year based on the well-known hospital-where-the-male-love-interest-is-in-a-coma-for-most-of-the-show formula (see Shock Treatment). But the people around me wouldn’t have […]
Titus isn’t renowned as Shakespeare’s greatest play, although it is his goriest. With fourteen deaths, a live burial and some rape and cannibalism thrown in for good measure it’s more than likely to unsettle the audience. The gory story follows the Roman general, Titus Andronicus, who has returned […]
Dealing with mental disabilities in drama is no easy task, and Peter Hamilton’s new play, set in a mental hospital, tackles this theme head-on. Its subject is the relationship between two of the patients, whose romantic feelings for each other develop throughout the course of the play. They […]
Apparently, this is a phenomenon, and an institution even older than the John Lewis Christmas advert. Well, so the programme says. The long-awaited (well, twelve months) successor to the ground-breaking Dick! and its beloved sequel, Dick! Comes Again: Bigger, Longer, Harder!, like them the new arrival Sleeping Booty […]
This classic children’s show has all the trademark touches of a Polka production; imaginative staging, wonderful puppetry, excellent casting, but the episodic nature of the piece makes it feel fragmentary, and therefore below the usually high Polka standards. This is an innovative adaptation, with the Darlings home set […]
A bridge, a woman who is desperate to jump, and an untrained bystander trying to talk her down. It makes for a good set-up, doesn’t it? Well, it was a good set-up, but it just didn’t get much further than that. The playwright, Vinay Patel, tries to show […]
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