ALAN McGUIRE welcomes a biography of the French semiologist and philosopher

Road Show
Upstairs at the Gatehouse
ANOTHER immaculate musical drama Upstairs at the Gatehouse for the annual holiday musical. Road Show, completed in 2008 is a collaboration of Stephen Sondheim’s music and lyrics and John Weidman’s book.
A cast of eight hoof, sing and act through this tale of “anyone can get rich’’ America, if you just have the balls, if you sell, and lie and cheat. It’s called creative ambition, not filthy lucre or profiteering.
Reece Richardson and Oliver Sidney play the Wisner brothers, Wilson and Addison respectively with terrific style. Spurred on by their dying father (Robert Finlayson) telling them to get rich – show ambition, take to The Road.

FRANCIS BECKETT introduces his new play that aims to give its audience a taste of what a far-right triumph would be

JAN WOOLF is beguiled by the tempting notion that Freud psychoanalysed Hitler in a comedy that explores the vulnerability of a damaged individual

