Othello has been on my theatre hit list for some time. Having enjoyed the play's candid exploration of paranoia, guises, sex, love, jealousy, reputation and homicide- the stakes could not be higher.

Since 'sliced bread' is the fail-safe comparison for anything remarkable, take last night's 'Three' as an enormously tall, gazillion slice, jam-packed, crusts removed (obviously), American inspired, saucy, filling, over-spilling, thick and soft sandwich spectacular.

'All the real work is done in the rehearsal period' – Donald Pleasence

The National Youth Theatre have celebrated their 60th anniversary this year and so we were definitely looking forward to watching 'Pigeon English', based upon Gbolahan Obisesan's adaptation of the Man Booker shortlisted novel by Stephen Kelman.