The star of this play for me was Nadine Higgin's Sir Toby Belch. She has magnificent stage presence. I do wonder whether we are meant to like Sir Toby as much as we did? But I loved every moment she was onstage and her interaction with Maria (NadiKemp-Sayfi) was brilliant.
Every so often in London we get a treat which is the essence of a Broadway big musical and this is the case with Cole Porter's musical Anything Goes at the Barbican Theatre. This is essentially the production that wowed New York in 2011 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall and winning Tonys.
What better tonic to bring us out of lockdown than Wonderville a variety show of magic, illusions and mind reading. This show is suitable for the whole family providing you haven't get children with a circular saw who want to practise sawing mummy in half on the kitchen table! This show has to come with a Don't Try This At Home warning.