The Arts Review​

Ross Gaynor and Ian Toner in Simon Stephens' A Slow Fire. Image, Irem Akay New Critical Voices: encouraging a diversity of critical viewpoints through real time opportunities for aspiring critics. **** We tell ourselves stories in order to live, Joan Didion declares in the famous opening line of The White Album. How do we make sense of tragedy and chaos? Storytelling, Didion answers. We look for the sermon in suicide. We impose narrative upon disorder and uncertainty. In his

Amara Okereke and Phillip Attmore in Top Hat:The Musical. Image uncredited New Critical Voices: encouraging a diversity of critical viewpoints through real time opportunities for aspiring critics. ***** Cheeky and charming, Top Hat:The Musical is a classic love-letter to 1930’s Hollywood. Based on Irving Berlin’s iconic 1935 film of the same name, Matthew White and Howard Jacques faithfully re-imagine the love story played famously by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers for the t

Philip Attmore and cast in Top Hat:The Musical. Image uncredited **** It's a brave endeavour staging an adaptation of the classical movie Top Hat . One might say foolhardy. Irving Berlin 1935 classic movie featuring the inimitable Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and a sublime supporting cast, effortlessly graceful and faultlessly charming. It's boy meets girl with a twist of mistaken identity leaving you hoping love conquers all. This being the Golden Age of Hollywood you'v