Theatre

One of the  features I most appreciate about the Rust is the approach to review. This is typified by dear young Daffers, DYD as I call her, who rates ambience, greeting, decor, comfort, cost, speed of delivery and payment as much as gastronomy as these are all considerations the diner takes on [...]

To dramatise on stage a fine novel and film is never going to be easy and Emma Rice’s production is a brave but flawed attempt. I went with Alice Mansfield, an authority on Daphne du Maurier, who wondered beforehand how a play necessarily finite and constrained to the proscenium would cope [...]

Sometimes – and it does not happen often – you see a musical that blows your mind and Gypsy is such. It does not have one memorable song whilst some great musicals like Oliver, My Fair  Lady or South Pacific have many, so what makes this such a success? I would say two factors: a [...]