It may not be the company hitting their absolute heights, but it knows what its audience wants having been versed over the past few years and plays all the hits. Like your favourite festival and a week by the pool, I’d expect it to become a summer institution.
‘Under the skin of a sporting hero’: THE LONG WALK BACK – Touring ★★★
In Dougie Blaxland’s fascinating new play, The Long Walk Back, currently on a national tour, we see former England cricket international Chris Lewis (Martin Edwards) contemplating his life from his prison cell alongside his cellmate/angel/devil on his shoulder (Scott Bayliss).
‘The best fun you can have with your clothes on this Christmas’: OEDIPUSS IN BOOTS – Bristol ★★★★★
The Wardrobe has done it again. Oedipuss In Boots is the best fun you can have with your clothes on this Christmas season, an adult festive delight that finds the specificity in silliness and comes across like a mix of Monty Python at their zaniest and Trey and Matt Parker at their filthiest.
‘Scalpel-sharp hour of theatre with issues’: LEMONS, LEMONS, LEMONS, LEMONS, LEMONS – Bristol ★★★
If the production backs up a hunch that it is not quite a modern classic, it’s still a highly enjoyable take on a play that shows language is a right that shouldn’t be taken lightly.
Kris Hallet’s Year In Review
This was a year where the work touring into Bristol and the work I saw in Latitude, London, the cinema and New York dazzled.
HOW TO WIN AGAINST HISTORY – Touring & London
Only the British could have produced as flamboyant and controversial a character as Henry Cyril Paget, the Fifth Marquis of Anglesey who lost his family fortune to a blitz of frocks and jewels and a desire to make theatre for the people.