Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Misbehavin’ brilliantly
MICHAL BONCZA sees a musical based on the music of Fats Waller that's about as good as it gets
PIC CAP Ebullient: Wayne Robinson and Carly Mercedes Dyer Pic: Pamela Raith
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
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MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Southwark Playhouse, London
THE FIRST thing that hits you as you enter the horseshoe arena housing Ain’t Misbehavin’ are the onstage arches glittering with lights. A master stroke from designer Takis, they joyfully invoke the “Harlem Renaissance” of the 1920s when Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong were all the rage.
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