"Sprinkles"/"Constellations"

I finally got a chance to see “Sprinkles” – the first play from actress Katie-Elin Salt – presented as a Dirty Protest rehearsed reading at Chapter. The festive tale of a troubled young woman who gets a job as a department store elf, and is forced to face up to an unhappy past, it manages to be both poignant and scabrously funny. Having been in development for a while, it’s apparently destined to get a full run next year.

A few weeks ago, at The Other Room, I also got the opportunity to experience Nick Payne’s dazzlingly clever multiverse drama, “Constellations”, in what was essentially an amateur production (originating with The Unknown Theatre Company), although a highly accomplished one, with the play’s complexities beautifully realised.

"Constellations" (photo: Walter Hampson)

And it looks as though my first reviewing assignment of 2020 is booked in: “The King And I” at the Wales Millennium Centre. Shall we dance?