The thrills in this production are made to rib tickle rather than spine chill and the vertiginous shifts of plot and scene are employed to great comic effect.
Created from Robert Brown’s extensive catalogue of songs written for other musicals and events, Songs for a New World has no direct throughline but still appears as a strongly connected piece.
Typical of many regional orchestras, it is entirely amateur, run by a volunteer committee. But for much of the time during their concert, Winter Delights, you could be forgiven for thinking you were in Brisbane or Sydney.
Grief is the Thing With Feathers settles into glorious shape like cake mixture reaching the corners of the tin as it swells and bakes.
It’s sex, lies and vertical blinds in Sport for Jove’s production of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal at the Old Fitz.