Theatre Reviews

CONSTELLATIONS – Roborough Studios, University of Exeter

_____ 30 May 2025 ______ 4**** ______ If you were to take at face value the basic thread of Nick Payne’s highly successful play ‘Constellations’, then it would seem straightforward and, maybe, fairly unremarkable. However, Payne isn’t playing with a straight bat here and creates a four-dimensional puzzle within that story. With the subject of

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WERE YOU ANYONE BEFORE DAD’S ARMY? – The White Bear Theatre, Kennington, London

______ 29 April 2025 ______ 4**** 1/2 ______ One of the huge pleasures of the theatrical year last year was to witness some of the best storytelling I have seen for a long time. Nicolas Ridley’s biographical play about his Father, the playwright and actor Arnold Ridley, is revelatory, funny, touching, fascinating and deeply moving.

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CINDERELLA – BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET – Theatre Royal Plymouth

______ 9 April 2025 ______ 5***** ______ From the opening minor keys to the gloriously rich, deeply romantic climax, Prokofiev’s 1940s score for the ballet of Cinderella is so varied and immensely cinematic in the many themes and moods built into it. As ever, the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, under the baton of Charlotte Politi provide

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