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DAVID NICHOLSON, SKYLAR and BEHATI sample two Christmas productions in Cardiff
SETH SANDRONSKY appreciates a fresh take on a 100-year-old novel that helps to contextualise the current moment of conspicuous wealth, waste and climate chaos
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JAN WOOLF doubts that soft-core musical is the best way to transmit an important story of heroism and resistance
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GORDON PARSONS admires a version of Marlowe’s grim tragedy that strips it down to its gay essentials
When Cassy’s father fails to connect with his daughter — and misses out on
an evening in the Bitter End — a stranger’s self-mocking charm brings seething resentment.
Peter Pan/Hansel and Gretel
Sherman Theatre, Cardiff
CHRISTMAS entertainment for the children of Wales is in safe hands as Sherman theatre brings us two productions: their own Hansel and Gretel, and a joint production with Theatr Iolo of Peter Pan.
JM Barrie’s classic story of the boy who lives in Neverland and never grows up is a seasonal theatre favourite but writer Catherine Dyson and director Lee Lyford have given us the story in a modern setting and non-traditionally star Alex Murdoch as Mrs Darling and Captain Hook.
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