Monthly Archives: January 2013

The Boy is award-winning, wide-eyed, 34-year-old Sam Wills, a New Zealander, a mime and highly original stand-up comedian. A former street artist, he has had a big success at the Edinburgh Festival and on tour. He now makes his West … Continue reading →

Salad Days is basically a lot of dreadfully old-fashioned and singularly unfunny revue sketches. The story-line – so twee, so whimsical and so frightfully English – is about a magic piano which can make people dance. The show was written … Continue reading →

Mathew Bourne, master dance theatre showman, has been reinventing the major classical ballets ever since he created his Dickensian Nutcracker in 1992. This was followed by his masterpiece, the wonderful all-male Swan Lake in 1995. Now, as a fitting culmination … Continue reading →

When it comes to writing about marriage August Strindberg speaks with great authority. He was disastrously married three times. Edgar (a failed army captain) and his wife, Alice (a former failed actress), were clearly made for each other. They exist … Continue reading →

Martin Crimp’s elusive satire begins with an amusing scene with a family bickering at the Christmas dinner table, which will fool some people into thinking they are about to see a comedy in the Alan Ayckbourn manner. The play then … Continue reading →