Theatre

A play about Thomas Hobbes leaves LEN PHELAN baffled.

IT'S 50 years since Shelagh Delaney's play A Taste of Honey was first performed by Joan Littlewood's extraordinary Theatre Workshop.

YO ho ho and you are certainly going to need more than one bottle of rum if you've already booked to see this uninspiring production.

IT is difficult to imagine who would want to see a musical about the Holocaust in the weeks leading up to the holiday season.

LAURA KING is dazzled by the ex-Blur frontman's Chinese opera that's based on an ancient Tang dynasty manuscript.

HAVING seen a production of Romeo And Juliet in which the lovers didn't die, I was well prepared for anything that Frantic Assembly's artistic directors Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett might offer.

EVERYBODY loves a good scandal and David Hare's new play is full of it.

A NEW piece of theatre can sometimes be so ambitious that it can turn out to be too much for the story underneath to carry.

ROBERT TANITCH finds Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy of plays surprising, clever and often hilarious.

ACROBATIC monks are go! This production delivers exactly what's expected of it, with luminous costumes, beautiful sets and incredibly skilled and athletic martial arts masters who perform perfectly timed group displays.