Live It Up, Mr Hades - Press

“The theatre seating is arranged on stage so as to create an intimate cabaret atmosphere…The action takes place in and around a circus ring, which in turn becomes a cage, office, street, café – each change motivated by Charlie Barber’s excellent music, the percussive and emotive quality of which provided the cohesive factor…”
Keith Woods, Audience magazine October 1977

“It is a circus-style entertainment, based on short stories by Kafka, Gogol and Dostoievsky. In other words, it presents a nightmarish world set deep within the most subjective recesses of the imagination…The caricatures and the stories, however, give only part of the picture, the rest being provided by Charlie Barber’s effective musical score…Mr Barber’s strong keyboard work together with lyricist Robin Lyon’s clarinet played a major role in binding the show’s episodes together.”
Tim Brassell, Western Mail, 19 October 1977