Stephe Harrop

Even without its climactic sequel this is a roguishly appealing, stand-alone historical romp.

It’s not every day that you get to hear a Shakespeare play (or at least a play partly by Shakespeare) for the first time.

Grafting a social conscience onto Barrie’s blithely heartless hero isn’t as easy as re-attaching lost shadows.

Short, sour and stinging, Slowly pits the seductive rituals of conformity against the risk and indignity of freedom.

There’s even the odd pirate, redskin and fairy to be sighted among the motley and comprehensively lost crew.

This is a production fascinated by the psychological dissection of individual souls, but without much concern for the real-world consequences of its protagonists’ moral and marital manoeuvres.

A confident, charming, polished and thoroughly reliable seasonal entertainment for the very littlest theatre-goers.

This unconventional bio-drama is like a macabre inversion of the usual Christmas theatre outing.

Petrushka is an ambitious conglomeration of jokes, dance, music, tragedy and magic tricks.

Even-handed and humane, Alison’s House is another timely and thought-provoking find from The Orange Tree.