
Buyer and Cellar owes its success to the multi-talented, multi-character actor, Ash Flanders, who turns in a beautifully crafted performance – charming, impish, convincing and nuanced for all five characters that he inhabits.

Deliver they did, with a rousing performance that confirmed Florence Welch’s status as one of the most dynamic live entertainers touring today.

Under the direction of Megan Spindle, the stories engage us with the feminine as we might never have seen it before and the vagina; beautiful, violent, sexy, awkward and gorgeous.

Hale’s cast is, just simply, wonderful. Each performer is uniquely interesting, but they also blend harmoniously, both physically and emotionally.

Is there anything quite like a drawing room murder-mystery for bringing out the proletarian detective in us all?

You can try as you might to not like it, but resistance is futile, because CATS is a wondrous thing. It is such an indefatigable torrent of superb choreographic dexterity, theatrical inventiveness and musical joie de vivre that I defy anyone to leave the theatre without a smile on their face.

This trip down memory lane directed by Michael Loney promises some favourite old standards from the composer who got us through some ‘Stormy Weather’ and took us ‘Over the Rainbow’ back in the last century.