Calendar Girls is adapted from a real story. As I was leaving the theatre yesterday, I couldn’t help thinking that…
Octopus Soup, New Theatre, Cardiff
April 10, 2019Spring is often the time for a bit of lightheartedness, and a comedy that doesn’t ask too much of its…
Bottom, The Other Room at Porter’s Spring Fringe
March 28, 2019Willy Hudson’s one-man-show, written and performed with humour, charm and the occasional twinge of self-deprecation, would appear at face value…
Macbeth, National Theatre, Wales Millennium Centre
March 21, 2019I have an interesting relationship with Macbeth. The Scottish Tragedy, as it is superstitiously referred to, is easily my favourite…
The Full Monty, Wales Millennium Centre
March 12, 2019In the interview accompanying the programme for the play, writer Simon Beaufoy notes that it is somewhat disconcerting that The…
Romeo and Juliet, RSC, New Theatre, Cardiff
March 6, 2019When coming to a text as well-frequented as Romeo and Juliet, the pressure to put a different spin on it…
The Magic Flute, WNO, Wales Millennium Centre
February 17, 2019Mozart’s famous singspiel, with its well-known plot, charming characters, and memorable arias, can be both an easy win and a…
Into the Light, Hijinx/Teatro La Ribalta, Sherman Theatre,
February 17, 2019Hijinx have showed us in the past, more than one time, that they not only have the ability to produce…
Un Ballo In Maschera, WNO, Wales Millennium Centre
February 10, 2019WNO opens its Spring season with this interesting take on a work out of the Verdian repertoire which, while by…
BLUE, Chippy Lane Productions, Chapter
February 9, 2019If a debut is an indicator of a playwright’s potential, then Rhys Warrington, here bringing to the stage his first…