Sometimes a show comes along that seems to capture the mood of the moment. Perhaps less often, that show makes an uncanny personal connection, as I must reveal is the case with Benjamin Scheuer’s The Lion. Billed as "a one-man folk musical telling a true story of survival", the show…

The family in Alexis Zegerman’s drama revolves around a brilliant veteran scientist, a pioneer in IVF, for which he is about to receive a prestigious award. However, Professor Richard Myers suffers from advanced Parkinson’s, so the satisfaction of this lifetime achievement is tempered…

You could almost call Eugene Ionesco’s 1952 absurdist farce typecasting, what with it featuring a married couple with decades together under their belts. The Romanian-born French playwright, whose mother was Jewish, could hardly have envisaged a husband and wife duo of physical…