Great fun, but it's not Mozart
DON'T go to the Royal Exchange and expect to see Mozart's great opera.
Instead you will get the Beaumarchais original, a comic play that shocked eve-of-revolution France with its suggestion that the servant could be better than his master.
Here is Cherubino, a pretty, cross-dressing youth who falls for anything else in skirts and is comically portrayed by Samuel Barnett.
Dr Bartolo (Robert Austin) and Marceline (Carol Ann Crawford) want the servant Figaro to fulfil his marriage contract with the older woman -- until they all realise they are father, mother and son.
The unhappy Countess (Emma Cunnningham) wants the Count (Simon Robson) to love her again -- but he is after the maid Susanna (Nina Sosanya) on her wedding day, and it's all down to bridegroom Figaro to thwart his plans.
Figaro -- played by Kulvinder Chir from the BBC Asian comedy series Goodness Gracious Me -- is the star of the show. But the whole cast is excellent in a production that makes a fun and thoughtful night out.
John Griffiths
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