It was always going to be interesting to discover how the world of The Borrowers, those helpful miniature beings, would be created. At Chester’s Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre, it began with an empty stage. Somehow...
Read MoreWord of warning: do not read Henry Normal’s new poetry collection on the bus, even if you’ve been waiting a whole damn hour. Laugh, and the world laughs with you? No, it tends to look askance, then move a few seats...
Read MoreA new genre: thriller-farce? A sinister mystery, plus umpteen doors, rushings around and confusion, mistakes/mistaken identity. And (it says here), ‘ludicrously improbable situations’. How else would such a bunch of...
Read MoreYou could say it looks like Sting’s ship has come in with this production. Yes, far too many maritime metaphors spring to mind, rather as words and language do for Adrian Sanderson (Charlie Richmond), the intellectual...
Read MoreYou know that man, the man who can? Tim Firth is that man. His CV ranges from radio jingles, MC for stand-up comics, songwriter and playwright through to adapter of plays, writer of musicals, and screenwriter. You name it,...
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