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Stonewall

(3 stars)9 Aug 2007

Doubtless huge progress has been made regarding gay rights in recent decades but there are still reports of gay people being persecuted across the world.

Debbie Does Dallas - The Musical

Debbie Does Dallas - The Musical

(2 stars)23 Aug 2007

There’s a very fine line between a send-up of a ropey cultural item and something that’s just plain ropey. Almost from its shrill opening bars it becomes crystal clear that Debbie Does Dallas – The Musical has crossed the line. The fundamental…

Circus Oz

Circus Oz: 30th Birthday Bash

Acrobatics with an Aussie accent

(4 stars)7 Aug 2008

Characters in colourful costumes exchange banter with the audience, the live band plays a constant stream of Gogol Bordello-like polka and one act involves a dramatic take on Frankenstein's monster. This isn't your average circus. Far more theatrical…

Fame

Fame

(2 stars)22 Jan 2009

MUSICAL Running through the list of musical numbers in the programme your heart slowly starts to sink. Clearly the creators of this stage version of Fame couldn’t afford the copyright to songs from either the film or TV versions. What, no…

Britt Ekland: Britt on Britt

Britt Ekland: Britt on Britt

A Swedish sexagenarian’s exploits

(4 stars)14 Aug 2008

‘Who is Britt Ekland?’ So the former Bond girl and one-time wife of Peter Sellers begins her frank and surprisingly funny whistle stop tour of her enchantingly colourful life. Offering glimpses of the young starlet who entranced the likes of Rod Stewart…

Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard, Duke of York’s Theatre, London

Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard, Duke of York’s Theatre, London

(5 stars)27 Jul 2009

David Leveaux’s West End revival of Stoppard’s Arcadia is the first since its 1993 premiere, not because it’s not good (it’s excellent) but because it’s daunting. It is a play of big, basic questions; of eroticism and advanced mathematics; of…

Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn

Howard Brenton's iconoclastic historical drama is a hands-down crowd-pleaser

(4 stars)9 May 2012

You can see why the original Globe theatre production of Anne Boleyn sold out, and why Howard Brenton’s iconoclastic re-imagining of Henry VIII’s second wife was subsequently sent on a tour of the UK: the show is a hands down, no-arguments…

All the Queen’s Children

All the Queen’s Children

An impressive, unflinching piece of fluid theatre

(4 stars)9 Aug 2010

The teens of Reading Youth Theatre devised this unflinching, impressive piece of fluid theatre themselves around the stories of real-life teenage asylum seekers (some of whom are in the company). Samuel is forced to swim to shore, swaggering, glam Lule…

Faust

Faust

Dark, thrilling and unsettling adaptation of Goethe’s classic

(4 stars)20 Aug 2009

Surely one of the Edinburgh International Festival’s most ambitious projects, Silviu Purcarete’s grand adaptation of Faust takes over, and fills, the huge warehouse space at Ingleston’s Royal Highland Centre. Based on Goethe’s treatment of the German…

Ecstasy

Ecstasy

MDMA-fuelled love story

(3 stars)7 Aug 2008

Based on ‘The Undefeated’, one of three stories from Irvine Welsh’s 1996 novel Ecstasy, this piece centres around Lloyd (Jack McGowan), an ageing clubber who wants more out of life than living for the weekend. In the meantime, though, he’s content to…

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