GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Clown jewels
LYNNE WALSH relishes a sweetly anarchic hour of dance and acrobatics, underscored by a big theme
DANCE ME: Jo Fong and George Orange in The Rest of Our Lives
[Sara Teresa]
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
The Rest of our Lives
Battersea Arts Centre
BATTERSEA Arts Centre now bills itself as “a home for the extraordinary,” and this effervescent, melancholy, skilful show is exactly the right stuff.
Self-identifying as an old dancer and an old clown, Jo Fong and George Orange create a sweetly anarchic hour or so, with dance, acrobatics, and the best playlist of dance songs outside a wedding in the Welsh Valleys.
Fong is as earnest as a new primary schoolteacher, and just as anxious, with Orange as her lugubrious and long-suffering foil.
Similar stories
MAYER WAKEFIELD is gripped by a production dives rapidly from champagne-quaffing slick to fraying motormouth
![DEFIANT: Dan Daw and Christopher Owen in The Dan Daw Show [Pic: Jess Shurte]](https://dev.morningstaronline.co.uk/sites/default/files/styles/desktop/public/2025-08/crip%20joy%20web%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=OcQcfsb0)
Given the tawdry push and pull around disability benefits, MATTHEW HAWKINS relishes Dan Daw’s defiant celebration of body and sexuality
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by characters so un-nuanced as to be unreal, a stereotypical plot and a conceptual vampire
ANGELA COBBINAH applauds the success of a tribute in drama by a daughter to her immigrant mother