LEAVE A LIGHT ON CRIPS WITHOUT CONSTRAINTS PART 2

This series of intimate concerts from West End stars includes one of my personal favourites, David Hunter, who was an irresistible Dr Pomatter in Waitress. Other shows feature his former Waitress leading lady Lucie Jones, Hamilton’s Rachel John and Emmerdale star Chelsea Halfpenny.

NOTES Harriet Walter

This is a wonderful initiative from Graeae, the UK’S leading disabled-led theatre company. A series of two-hander ‘duologues’ pair up theatre greats such as Dame Harriet Walter and Sharon D Clarke with Graeae’s own leading lights, tackling topics from sibling rivalry to thespian egos and death by Post-it Notes!

a head and is complaining in a crackly voice, George’s credentials as a genius seem a bit questionable.

And her lumbering, bleeping “sister” Number 1 is even worse. She’s just a wheely bin with legs. But the genius lies in their wiring. It turns out they both experience emotions, though their levels of intelligence correspond to the sophistication of their bodies. Number 1 is a toddler and Number 2 is a moody teenager.

But when a secret hatch reveals the ladylike torso of the half-built Number 3, we twig why Archive Systems’ chief engineer has been dodging his boss’s video calls. He’s

GENIUS AT WORK building himself a walking, talking robo-lady.

And not just any lady. Like countless tortured movie hunks before him, George is tormented by flashbacks of the accident that killed his wife.

Before Jules (Stacy Martin) died, the sneaky scientist downloaded her brainwaves into a giant hard drive. Now, with her signal fading and Toby Jones’ investigator circling, he’s desperate for her to walk back into his life.

A more versatile lead actor and a more inquisitive screenwriter could have teased more out of this dark premise, but it’s stylish, intriguing and the tension builds to a very clever ending.