
With its sepia tones, jazz score and eccentric Jacques Tati-esque characters, it’s easy to forget The Triplets of Belleville was only released in 2003.

It’s amazing when you think back to those life changing moments in adolescence – bubbles of clarity caught between the soft naivity of childhood and the big hard tempting world of adulthood

Whether you quite understand it or not, Lady Eats Apple is an epic force unto itself, imbued with surrealism, humour and eeriness, as well as successfully harnessing an ambitious use of technology.

Hot Chocolate are a more polished ensemble than the first act and also in some cases degrees cooler and lower key. Their bouncy beat numbers were interspersed with a few nuanced sad storylines such as Emily.

It is strange that a lot of poetry leaves people cold, but if you call those verses ‘lyrics’ and set them to music, many of those same people will be enraptured.

With You and Me and the Space in Between, Kruckemeyer has created a universal, poignant allegory of the refugee plight which resonates with all ages, and Terrapin’s telling of it is inventive and charming.

Chaotic, rambunctious, percussive and provocative, MARAT/SADE is a theatrical bull untethered and let loose among political and economic sacred cows and a whole herd of social injustice.