Supposing: 4****

Zinnie Harris’s Supposing: takes the ancient Greek myth of Cassandra and drops it into a very recognisable modern world, creating an intriguing mixture of domestic comedy, psychological drama and something considerably more unsettling. We first meet Sally in a compelling … Read More

Love (5 Ways) – 3.5***

The lives, loves and relationships of 6 very different characters are opened up and fully explored in “Love (5 Ways)”. It lifts the lid on commitment, sex, monogamy and polyamory in the modern world.

Should sexual intimacy be confined … Read More

Call Me Elizabeth: From Lassie to Cleopatra – Guy Masterson – TTI presents Kayla Boyle5*****

Kayla Boyle gives a spellbinding performance in Call Me Elizabeth: From Lassie to Cleopatra, an intimate portrait of Elizabeth Taylor at a moment when her glittering public image masked considerable private turmoil.

Newsreel footage immediately adds authenticity, showing the real … Read More

The Tao of Lloyd Guy Masterson – TTI presents Dennis Trainor 4 1/2 ****

As a huge John Cusack fan, I know the 1989 film ‘Say Anything’ well, so The Tao of Lloyd immediately appealed: what exactly happened to Lloyd Dobler after the cameras stopped rolling?

Dennis Trainor Jr’s sharply written monologue provides an … Read More

Mrs Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library 4****

Jenny Lyn Bader’s Mrs Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library takes us to Berlin in 1933, shortly after the Nazis have come to power. It imagines a pivotal encounter in the early life of Hannah Arendt, who would go on … Read More

Always, Sometimes Maybe, 4****

Lou (Michele Stine) is a janitor who struggles to make connections with other people. In fact she finds it much easier to talk with the puppets she makes herself out of the various bits of thrown away plastic and other … Read More

Operotica: Lovers in Every Lifetime 4****

Operotica bill themselves as the UK’s “premier kinky opera duo” which I’m willing to believe they are. Consisting of the classically trained and immensely talented Amber Reeves and Dani Croston, Operotica play two lovers doomed to a cycle of endless … Read More

Soaked 4****

How much is too much? For Imogen and Rich, a successful professional couple with busy careers and young children, wine has become such an integral part of their lives that it is difficult to imagine their evenings without it. Emma … Read More

The Great Train Robbery 4****

One of the most famous British crimes of all time, the Great Train Robbery in 1963 set the nation’s imagination ablaze, with both criminals and the police hunting them becoming larger-than-life figures and household names. With a whopping £2.6 million … Read More

The Spy Network 4****

There is something particularly appropriate about seeing The Spy Network at Riddles Court. This atmospheric 16th-century building has its own connection to Mary Queen of Scots’s family: her son, James VI, held a banquet here. The company deliberately chose the … Read More