Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

February 1, 2017 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Hayes Theatre, January 31 8/10   It creeps up on you like a cancer. Perhaps the blithe, swirling decadence contributes in its way, helping make the conditions ripe, as a failing immune system does. When Herr Ludwig’s vividly red swastika armband first appears it has the shock-value of an open…

January 23, 2017 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Leura Everglades Gardens, January 22 7/10 Imagine two Donald Trumps cohabiting in the White House, and you have a snapshot of one aspect of the kaleidoscopic relationship between Antony and Cleopatra. Of course Trump is a vulgar, hollow caricature of himself compared with Shakespeare’s great protagonists, but they share some…

January 10, 2017 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Lyric Theatre, January 8 7.5/10 One’s ability to succumb to Cinderella stories tends to wither with age – and I don’t mean reaching one’s riper years. About 10 should do it. So this withered fruit sat with arms folded, little inclined to cut a musical version of Madeleine St John’s…