Theatre: Beauty And The Beast

For the past few years The Belgrade Theatre has been staging plays in the bombed out ruins of Coventry Cathedral. This years production of Beauty And The Beast was advertised with gothic posters, however the play itself was far closer to pantomime. Devised and written by the company the script consisted of little more than ad-libs finding humour in the energetic stage design with intermittent blurts of exposition. This left the play as uneven as Fox news coverage and serious in need of a dedicated script-writer. Next year something weightier than a feather from a sparrow on the Atkins diet is in order.