The Playhouse, April 29 7.5/10 Five years ago Songs for Nobodies was a near perfect confluence of music, script, performer and director. The same performer (Bernadette Robinson), writer (Joanna Murray-Smith) and director (Simon Phillips) then reunited to exploit Robinson’s gifts as a singer, mimic and actress in Pennsylvania Avenue, now…
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Riverside Theatre, May 7 8/10 The three Shakespeare plays that can work modern readers and audience members in ideological lathers are The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest and The Taming of the Shrew, with the latter containing one of the most polarising speeches in the entire canon. Yet to approach…
Belvoir St Theatre, April 6 5.5/10 Cunningly marketed as the season of goodwill, Christmas is more commonly the gala event on the family feud calendar. The joys of this have been depicted on stage before, notably in Jon Robin Baitz’s ruthlessly funny Other Desert Cities. Kit Brookman’s The Great Fire…