Paule Constable
Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes
★★★★☆ Moody and mesmerising
The Red Shoes, Matthew Bourne’s dark and twisted tale of obsession and love, jetés into the Festival Theatre on the coat-tails of 1940s Hollywood glamour and a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale.
War Horse
★★★★★ Exquisite
The latest tour of the National Theatre’s War Horse has arrived at the Festival Theatre, in a production as gripping and vital today as when it premiered nearly twenty years ago.
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake
★★★★☆ Emotional artistry
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake, at the Festival Theatre until Saturday, remains a huge draw, and with good reason.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
★★★★★ Breathtaking
Anyone with even a passing interest in fantasy should certainly go and see The Ocean at the End of the Lane at the Festival Theatre. As should anyone who has ever suffered loss, ever been a child, or who wants to see a theatrical production whose storytelling drive is matched by its extraordinary visual power.
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake
★★★★★ Magnificent:
It’s 23 years since Mathew Bourne changed the gender of the swans in Swan Lake for his choreography of the ballet, which is at the Festival Theatre all week to Saturday.
Local Hero Tickets on-sale May 1
Dates, on-sale dates & creative team announced:
Tickets for the musical adaptation of Local Hero at the Lyceum go on public sale on Tuesday 1 May 2018 at 10am. The production will open at the Lyceum on Sat 23 March 2019 for a four week run before transferring to London’s Old Vic.
War Horse
★★★★★ Magnificent:
The National Theatre’s touring production of War Horse at the Festival Theatre is involving, emotional, visually spectacular and every bit as good as you have probably heard.
Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes
★★★★☆Beautiful and dangerous:
Love, lust, obsession and despair are given colourful and vigorous life in Matthew Bourne’s adaptation of The Red Shoes, touring to the Festival Theatre this week.
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