
With a mix of the brilliant and the perhaps not so brilliant, Hamlet is a relatively good start to La Boite’s year.

I’ll say this about Le Grand Cirque: I’ve never been more afraid in a theatre.

He is a charmingly gregarious host, gracious and grateful of his supporting players and his audience. Alexander knows we came for our little slice of Seinfeld and he’s happy to oblige, revelling even in remembrance of his big TV hit.

Eurobeat is less a piece of musical theatre, more an immersive life experience. Resistance is entirely futile.

The best narratives are like jigsaw puzzles: it won’t all come together at once, you might have to ponder over it for some time, but piece by piece a picture will form.

Still they hunt them down. The pedophiles. The gays. The socialists. Boat people. Religious 'extremists'. New-age witches, sans broomsticks and cauldrons.