Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour
National Theatre, Dorfman, SE1
3/5
A multi-award winning sell-out at Edinburgh fringe festival last year, Our Ladies tells the story of six Catholic school choir girls who go on the lash as soon as they’ve sung their last high note.
Based on the novel The Sopranos by Alan Warner and adapted for stage by Billy Elliot author and playwright Lee Hall, the play is billed as a musical.
DAVID NICHOLSON recommends the staging of this Wagnerian classic minus one or two insignificant quibbles
MARY CONWAY becomes impatient with the intellectual self-indulgence of Tom Stoppard in a production that is, nevertheless, total class
GORDON PARSONS is blown away by a superb production of Rostand’s comedy of verbal panache and swordmanship
DAVID NICHOLSON is thrilled – and shocked – by an opera that seethes and sizzles with passion and the depraved use of power


