GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Wild Swimming, Bristol Old Vic
Off-the-wall exploration of changing identities and relationships over time
Inventive: Alice Lamb and Annabel Baldwin
[The Other Richard]
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
CELEBRATING the fragility of live performance is one of Fullrogue’s missions and with this inaugural production they consistently challenge the boundaries of theatre.
Marek Horn’s deliberately chaotic script follows the meetings of two friends on a Dorset beach over the last four centuries, loosely using history to explore their changing roles and expectations and wild swimming as the metaphor for their freedom.
The play ranges from the confines of restricting Elizabethan sexual identity through the dawning aspirations of women during the Romantic era and the social upheaval of 20-century inter-war Britain to the present day and troubled issues of identity.
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