James Price's theatre history

Very powerful and moving. Second half much better than the first. Not the best piece of narrative storytelling I've ever seen and feels like it gets through on emotion and ardent singing more than a well rounded and satisfying story. Some incredible singers on stage though with…More

Absolutely brutal. As difficult a watch as I've had in the theatre but in a sort-of-good way. The blood, needles, nudity, senseless violence were appalling to see and very visceral and real but something about their movement and watching it all happening in the just over 90…More

Incredible feat of theatre. The acting, set design, costume, script, direction - all brilliant. It's a brutal watch but surprisingly funny in many places for a completely tense and captivating tragedy. Shame see the theatre with so many empty seats on a show that had a full…More

Applauded byCarrie Price-Hill

I loved the acting and the staging. We sat on stage and the revolve was a brilliant concept, bringing so much life to what can be quite a wordy play. I loved its ideas about head and heart, science and poetry, and whether either is more important or whether life is just life…More

A brilliant premise that somehow became a dull evening. The idea of weaving magic into the set changes and transitions was clever and occasionally came close to working, but overall the production felt clunky and underwritten. Too many moments seemed to get lost rather than…More

Absolutely brilliant. Every performance felt completely on point, and the whole thing worked as a true ensemble piece. The recording-studio setting made it wonderfully claustrophobic, while the story captured the sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll atmosphere of a band starting to…More

Nicola Walker was very good, but I found the script quite disjointed and never really understood what the whole thing was trying to say. There were interesting moments and performances, but it didn’t quite come together for me and didn’t leave much of an impression afterwards.

I remember enjoying this more than I remember the specifics of it. An interesting subject with some very good performances, although the acting felt a little patchy overall. There was plenty to engage with, but the writing and storytelling could be clunky and I was never entirely…More

John Lithgow was excellent as Roald Dahl. I’d seen him years before in The Magistrate at the National and he was just as compelling here. The set was amazing, essentially splitting a full house in two across the stage, and the whole play was incredibly tense. It gave a…More

It felt like the play wanted to use the manhunt and murder trial as a way into a wider discussion about toxic masculinity, but for me it never really worked out what it wanted to say. There were several interesting ideas in there about the man at the centre of the story, the…More

A decent enough premise, but for a play about passion and threesomes it was pretty boring. There were some good lines and the performances were fine, but for a play about desire and an unconventional relationship it felt strangely lacking in chemistry or intimacy.