Reviews

A chicken (who can’t lay eggs, perhaps because it’s actually a rooster) sets off on a quest for the best soup. A horse composed of two entirely different characters, Stan (the head of the horse) and Lee (the tail of the horse) tumbles into an adventure through the universe, constantly juggling two sets of conflicting needs. A ‘peacock’ (or at least a menopausal bird with a glorious self-made tail) is on an expedition of pure fabulousness through the world, nurturing a sense of identity along the way.

When T. S. Eliot wrote a collection of poems about cats for his godchildren, I doubt he had in mind the sensory overload that is the revival of the musical, Cats.

Eliot’s individual poems, published nearly a hundred years ago as ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’ have been combined into a kind of narrative of how one chosen from a tribe of cats – the Jellicle Cats – is ascended to feline-heaven.

The Sound of Music is a beloved musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, with the book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the 1949 memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. If you are a musical theatre fan, you know the story, and many of its songs; such is its legendary status. This Gilbert & Sullivan (G&S) S.A.

Put simply, Anthem is the sum of many parts, most of which require all the content warnings.