Read more about the article REVIEW: Jesus Christ Superstar, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre (2016)
Jesus (Declan Bennett) - Photo by Johan Persson

REVIEW: Jesus Christ Superstar, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre (2016)

Timothy Sheader's production at the Open Air in Regent's Park is exciting, brilliantly sung and choreographed and, best of all, unbounded by walls.  On a fine summer's evening, the cast join us progressing through the audience and immediately I felt we were witnessing a joyous sect of enthusiastic and inspired youth.  They are magnetic so that you want to be part of them.  They make their way down to the stage dominated by a 35 foot cross on the playing area.

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Read more about the article REVIEW: The Color Purple, Menier Chocolate Factory (2013)
Cynthia Erivo as Celie and Christopher Colquhoun as Mister at the rear Neil Reidman as Pa (Photo: Nobby Clark)

REVIEW: The Color Purple, Menier Chocolate Factory (2013)

Emotion will bring tears to your eyes at the bravery of Celie, and women like her, in the face of adversity. The context, of course, is that these women whose grandparents were born into slavery are still living an oppressed existence dictated by their gender and their lack of economic power.

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