

The problem with a simple premise is that sometimes a production doesn’t stray far enough from this simplicity. There is so much more emotional ground that could have been covered to give the play and the characters more complexity.


Deviser, perfomer, puppeteer and animator Tim Watts has created a magnificent work worthy of its international praise.

Once upon a time when the world was not yet Disneyfied and, therefore, far less innocent, there lived a man called Hans Christian Anderson. Hans wrote tales for children in the 1800s. One of these was called The Red Shoes.

‘Dracula’ really belongs to another time and place. Its use of fog and lighting special effects and extended periods of silence and character close-ups were intended to instill terror in its 1931 audience.

The Blue Show didn’t come across as bent or twisted or especially rude to me; in fact this old perve was disappointed.