Chess

Whatsonstage.com“Lean, mean and thrilling...” This brilliant staging allows Rice's superb lyrics - which are playful, witty and seriously inventive - full value; the music, too, is heard to maximum un-microphoned advantage. It's a musical and literary pleasure from start to finish...

The Stage“Thrillingly rendered in the unmiked conditions of this chamber theatre...” The shifting dynamics of the relationships between the central trio is rendered faultlessly, thanks to performances of fierce concentration and vocal power from Sarah Galbraith as Florence, Tim Oxbrow as Freddie and Nadim Naaman as Anatoly...

Time Out“There’s plenty to praise...” Directors Christopher Howell and Steven Harris probably make enough of the right moves to satisfy fans, but they’re unlikely to convince sceptics of this slightly self-important musical oddity...