Focus / Culture - 3 weeks ago

Baby, He Loves You review – the patriarchal power beneath the perfect wedding

Stage@TheDock, HullJodie and Mike are getting married with all the familiar trimmings – wayward stag night, last-night jitters, irritating in-laws – but Maureen Lennon calls out the hidden misogynyThey have pulled out all the stops for the wedding of...

Focus / Culture - 2 months ago

Little Shop of Horrors review – evergreen musical back for another bite

New Wolsey theatre, IpswichWith its irresistible harmonies, this comedy about a blood-guzzling plant has plenty to savour but it lacks satirical punch and menace‘Feed me, Seymour!” Alan Menken and Howard Ashman’s 1982 comedy has so many catchy songs...