MARIA DUARTE, LEO BOIX and ANGUS REID review Brides, Dead of Winter, A Night Like This, and The Librarians
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JAN WOOLF relishes a seasonal offering of peanuts
Eleanor Fransch (Lucy), Millie Robins (Sally), Oliver Sidney (Snoopy), Troy Yip (Schroeder), Jacob Cornish(Linus), Jordan Broatch (Charlie Brown)
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MARY CONWAY recommends an early Shakespearean tragedy that feels so contemporary that it mirrors our daily news
A ghost story by Mexican Ave Barrera, a Surrealist poetry collection by Peruvian Cesar Moro, and a manifesto-poem on women’s labour and capitalist havoc by Peruvian Valeria Roman Marroquin
DAVID NICHOLSON recommends a dazzling production of Bernstein’s opera set in a world where chaos and violence are greeted by equanimity
MARY CONWAY is frustrated by a new play that loses its drama amid the moral dilemma of re-settling children in the aftermath of WWII
Acclaimed as a masterpiece when it premiered, this study of story-telling in an Irish pub more than lives up to expectations, says MARY CONWAY
SYLVIA HIKINS relishes a comedy that dives deep into Liverpool’s divided loyalties
You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown
The Gatehouse Upstairs, London
THIS series of vignettes from Charles Schultz’s famous Peanuts cartoon strip is a delight, and embodied by an ensemble of actors clearly relishing the whole thing.
The comedy starts off nicely as Snoopy’s phone goes off and the audience are reminded to turn theirs off too. Harry Styles’s on stage band strikes up with that nostalgic pantomime sound – all shimmering cymbals, keys, strings and reeds calling to our inner children as the cast navigate the ups and downs, challenges and joys of growing up.
It’s funny — darn funny — the actors mining the comedy as well as the poignancy of their roles. Snoopy, a louche Oliver Sydney, wears a white dinner suit, changing into sparkly tux and taps shoes for his routine celebrating the only high point of his day, suppertime. Spoiler alert – he wears a bone tie.
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