Theatre Royal, May 18 7/10 Damp dynamite can be slow to ignite, but still goes off with a bang in the end. This show spent most of its time meandering like a riverboat around the twists and turns of Tina Turner’s childhood (with a loveless mother), and her marriage to…
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Ensemble Theatre, May 9 7.5/10 Only ex-cons work at Clyde’s. It’s a purgatory through which they must pass before re-entering the pearly gates of normal life. The theological metaphors don’t end there, because while the setting might be a truck-stop sandwich shop on a B-road in backwoods Pennsylvania, it has…
Hayes Theatre, April 26 7.5/10 Before a note is sung you’re seduced by Nick Fry’s set. The angular art deco shapes ornamenting upstage windows are echoed in downstage panels depicting skyscrapers. This elegance contrasts with the brutalist world between them: one of metallic walls and beefy rivets, of grills, switches…