InReview
The musical version of the loved film poses some challenges to an audience as it winds its way to an inspirational ending via a thicket of broad northern accents, coal-mining politics, death, loss and poverty.
Theatre
Emerging from this outstanding stage adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984, you feel something like Winston Smith leaving the Ministry of Love: psychologically crushed and grateful for it.
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Fawlty Towers – Live seamlessly merges several episodes of the original show, reminding us of so much that was endearing about the original. To treat it as merely a sentimental trip back to the celebrated comedy series, however, would be to overlook the freshness and the quality of performances brought to it by the current cast.
Australian writer Sue Smith’s Machu Picchu is about relationships: how they can be torn apart, how they can achieve longevity and how the sparks that initiated them can be reignited.
