MUSTARD (Traverse Theatre/Peacock Theatre/Fishamble: The New Play Company)**

 

By Cal

Link: https://www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/event/mustard

Available until: Monday 14^th December

Content warning: Contains themes of mental health and self harm. 14+

Sometimes I watch a play that just doesn’t work for me. It’s just as likely to be a failing in me as a failing in the play. Mustard has won awards so I feel it ought to be good. But I wasn’t feeling it.

Writer and performer Eva O’Connor plays a woman in love. She’s met a guy, a cyclist, and she thinks he’s amazing. She doesn’t see him as much as she’d like because he goes away a lot, but he’s worth waiting for. He’s the one.

FAME (The Shows Must Go On/Peacock Theatre/Sadler’s Wells*****

By Imogen

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYEEZ04lbDg

Available until: 7.30pm Sunday 27 September

I think Fame is really underrated as a musical. All most people know is that it’s about stage school and that it has a good title song but there’s so much more to it than that. Fame isn’t the only good song and the variation in musical styles is really impressive and not something you see in most musicals. This doesn’t just have the pop and rock styles you’d expect to find in a musical. There’s a bit of classical, a bit of Latin, a bit of street and lots of really good tunes.