Rachael Stirling as A - Photo: Kevin Cummins
REVIEW: An Intervention, Watford Palace (2014)
An Intervention looks at the tensions of a platonic friendship between a man and a woman.
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.
Lenny Henry as Troy and Tanya Moodie as Rose
(Photo: Nobby Clark)
REVIEW: Fences, Duchess Theatre (2013)
Director Paulette Randall has honed these real performances for this excellent production. By the end of the play we know each and every one of August Wilson’s characters. Wilson’s language is powerful and poetic. Libby Watson’s set is the spacious Pittsburgh house bought with brother Gabriel’s compensatory payment for his war wound and surrounded by greenery as well as the eponymous fences.