
As many expected, it’s a far cry from both L. Frank Baum’s novel and its subsequent 1939 adaptation. Less expected, it’s still got a strong, identifiable (and surprisingly complex) narrative.

It’s a great, daring concept for a work. Sadly, Circa don’t fully deliver on that conceptual potential.

Aurelian is a compendium of fantastic showcases of skill, blindingly affecting moments of catharsis and colossal dollops of ambition – but it’s not quite a finished work

Look is a very joyful and immediate work. There is colour and movement; imagination, silliness and fun. It will easily entertain your children. However, you have to ask the question – why theatre? Why go to the theatre to entertain your children? If there’s an answer to that question, it’s Look.

Confessions of a Control Freak is quite a big bit of fun and does what good theatre does best – makes the audience feel a little bit less alone in their struggle to control their lives.

There are flaws – American accents slip, actors overreach and lines fall flat – but, taken on its own terms, Other Desert Cities is smoothly crafted and deeply evocative theatre.

Benedict Hardie has both written and directed a brilliant laugh out loud production, that kept the audience guessing until it’s final moments.