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?
Princess Caraboo
Finborough Theatre, London SW1
4/5
PRINCESS Caraboo is an object lesson in how to fit a quart into a pint pot. Through a combination of ingenuity, endeavour and imagination its producers have succeeded in staging a West End-sized musical in a space not much larger than the average living room.
Based on an apparently true story, Princess Caraboo is a tale of conspiratorial deception, dissimulation and gullibility.
PAUL FOLEY revels in the coolest, most joyful piece of theatre you’ll get this summer
ANGUS REID recommends that you discover a uniquely intimate community venue in central Edinburgh for an evening of beer and ambitious jazz
SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a fascinating, revealing, superbly acted evening of theatre
DAVID NICHOLSON is thrilled – and shocked – by an opera that seethes and sizzles with passion and the depraved use of power


