Reviews

For a musical it seems odd to have a male lead who is depressive and uncharismatic.

Guy (Toby Francis) sings (beautifully) about his lost love on the streets of Dublin: he’s also about to dump his guitar and throw in all music ambitions.

But what Guy lacks in charisma and optimism he certainly makes up in authenticity. It obviously draws in a Czech passerby, simply called The Girl, who then spends the show building his confidence, getting him back to the pub band, into the studio, and even to retrieving his lost love.

Voom!  The lights go up from black and the members of the Rawcus Ensemble reveal themselves one at a time in movement - by running across the playing space to a definite percussive beat.  Then they’re coming from all directions, criss-crossing, turning, leaving…

Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None is a well-structured, nicely twisted murder mystery, without a detective. With ten characters stranded on an island, an unknown killer is picking them off one by one.

Clutching their signed copy of Thai-riffic, excited children streamed into the Riverside theatre to see Nathan Luff’s adaptation of book about … well … identity. family, belonging, adjusting and accepting. All are there in this heart-warming story that begins as Lengy takes his first tentative but determined steps into Year 7.