November 2021

MATTHEW BOURNE’S NUTCRACKER – Theatre Royal Plymouth

5***** 16 November 2021 If there is a better living storyteller for the stage than Sir Matthew Bourne then I will be most surprised. His NUTCRACKER – celebrating its 30th Anniversary with a spanking new production – has such a lucid narrative you could be reading a book or watching a stage play instead of a

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OUR MAN IN HAVANA – The Rondo Theatre, Bath

3*** 4 November 2021 In his 1966 novel ‘The Comedians’, Graham Greene set a story of ‘innocents abroad’ against a background of the brutal dictatorship of Papa Doc Duvalier on the island of Haiti. By turns the novel is amusing, violent and disturbing. As a prelude to that tale, ‘Our Man in Havana’ (written in

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