GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Eat the rich
GEORGE FOGARTY is sickened, amused and stirred to action by a unique community theatre show
Acting Lab: Perform
[Pic: Paul Blakemore]
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
Made in Chekhov
Acting Lab: Perform
Tobacco Factory, Bristol
THE premise is certainly intriguing: a theatrical re-enactment of the entirety of Season 1 Episode 1 of Made in Chelsea. The question is: why?
In the midst of a cost-of-living crisis, in which the working class is being extorted as never before — for rent, for energy dividends, and for wage cuts — it is certainly interesting to get a little window into the lifestyles being funded by the fruits of our enforced philanthropy.
When it first hit the small screen in 2011, Made in Chelsea marked a transitional moment in the developing genre of “Reality TV.” Shows like Big Brother had thrown together people from widely divergent backgrounds and then let the class and intergenerational dynamics unfold as they may. All that went out of the window with Made in Chelsea, which focused exclusively on the lives and longings of a small group of pampered uber-rich twentysomethings.
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