GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Cyrano, Bristol Old Vic
Outstanding new version of a tragi-comic classic
A nose for love: Cyrano (Tristan Sturrock) with Roxane (Sara Powell)
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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
NUMEROUS versions of Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play about the hot-blooded 17th-century swordsman, poet and philosopher, cursed with a nose of excessive proportions, have filled hours of stage and film time.
This latest version by Bristol Old Vic is a fun-filled, triumphant addition.
With a nod to commedia dell’arte, Peter Oswald’s translation and Tom Morris’s direction inject a lightness of touch, while contemporary references shift the production away from any specific time period.
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