‘In 2025 with the spectre Orwell feared rising again in a different form, Animal Farm is never more relevant, especially with such a variegated restaging.’ What flutters into your mind when you think of Valentine’s Day? Cards, chocolates, overpriced steak? Or in antithesis Galentines Day? Fuzzy friendship and nothing even remotely resembling a heart? But unless you are a certain ...
‘Hilarious and vocally gifted performances’ 2004 was 20 years ago, apparently. I only found this out (and was left aghast) when writing this review. My melted millennial mind still thinks that surely that must be the 90s, and I bet there are those of you out there thinking it’s the 60s. Putting aside the passing of time (as if we could) one positive ...
‘Has a lot to say about the state of the nation in the 90s and the ongoing struggles for acceptance’ 30 years ago, in 1993 Jonathan Harvey wrote and performed something beautiful at The Bush Theatre. Now on the anniversary, the hit play turned TV movie, then big screen sensation settles into the grander of Theatre Royal Stratford East before ...