Birmingham School of Acting MA showcase, Tristan Bates Theatre
Tristan Bates Theatre: This tight, exceptionally well directed showcase really gives 13 students the chance to show what they can do. For once, careful choice of material and casting allows, for example, a slightly older woman to play a mother, an actor with Chinese ethnicity to play a culturally appropriate role twice and Asian men to play, as required, Moslems. And that refusal to cast against type just for the sak…