‘overweighted with either surrealist rambling, stiff pronouncements on gender/sexuality, or unwieldy stereotypes’ An exciting premise highlighting an extraordinary, historically overlooked person regrettably gets wrapped up in itself attempting to do justice to a complex combination of elements. Claude Cahun, to answer the play’s title, was a queer artist and writer, anti-Nazi freedom fighter and surrealist – a complex person at ...
‘A pleasant if not particularly original experience’ Dramatising the popular German fairytale by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, new musical The Sorcerer’s Apprentice has colour, magic, and sentimentality exploding around the screen. But do the flashes, fire, and saturated lighting constitute an effect musical? The story heavily fleshes out Goethe’s poem, recontextualising it (if rather poorly) to the mythical, Nordic world of Midgard, ...
‘Ask yourself why this current incarnation has been created’ Whimsical, nonsensical, and sadly lacking heart, Seussical the Musical aims to blend many of Dr. Seuss’s characters into one flashy surreal tale filled with rhyming, joy and well…more rhyming? Unfortunately what transpires on stage is a messy and rather disappointing production. But where, oh where to start? Maybe where the play ...