GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
A brilliant dismantling of the American Dream
SIMON PARSONS applauds the energy and humour of a riveting show
CHARISMATIC: Jonathan Slinger as Scott
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
Sarah
The Coronet Theatre
ADAPTED from Scott McClanahan’s semi-autobiographical novel this amusingly dark dismantling of the American Dream is brilliantly performed by Jonathan Singer as Scott.
Addressing the audience directly, Scott opens his monologue by boasting that he is a skilled and experienced drunk driver. His description of a close call with a traffic cop veers from amusingly anarchical to childishly destructive, but the humour is undercut when he introduces the potential ramifications of his actions with his distressed children being his forgotten passengers.
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