Lennox Theatre, February 26 9/10 We never see it, but it explodes in our imaginations: a glistening white vision unveiled at dawn on the day the play begins. It is 1648, and the Taj Mahal, supposedly the world’s most beautiful edifice, is finally to be revealed after 16 years of…
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Capitol Theatre, February 24 7/10 Who’d have thought that 9 to 5 the Musical could double the fun of the film? Some will sniff that that’s no great achievement, the film needing to be sharper, funnier and less silly. But the musical not only shrinks those flaws, it amplifies (more…
New Theatre, February 13 8/10 At first it seems unnecessary; an irritant even. Just because Hugh Whitemore’s 1986 play is skilfully structured to jump between eras in protagonist Alan Turing’s life, do we really need three actors playing Turing and two playing his mother? Does director Anthony Skuse not believe…