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The week in theatre: The Tempest; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812; You Me Bum Bum Train – review

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It is hard to imagine a staging that mingles so much bombast with so much fog.

Sigourney Weaver as Prospero is flat: not only unsure of her lines but apparently uncertain of what a line is.

What is missing elsewhere is the sense of dream, the ethereal, the fade and glimmer of the verse.

Everyone is asked to keep mum about what goes on in the corridors and rooms that uncoil behind the not-to-be-disclosed address in central London .

One of the most riotous of theatrical experiences gets locked up as a secret, an uncommunicable dream.

Audiences familiar with immersive theatre begin to control their experience.