The London Times Critic Jeremy Kingston

“At the Rosie I saw a short and most interesting play The Jewel and the Thief, well directed by Rob Ballard. Playing the Duke of Saxe- Meiningen as well as his theatre ‘director’ Ludwig Chronegk, plus Ludwig Barnay, not to leave out Ellen Franz, was the truly charismatic German actor Ben Bela Boehm. He stirred in me the admiration and expectations that Rufus Sewell stirred when I saw him in ‘Le Grand Meaulnes’ fifteen or more years ago. He smiles a lot and it is a winning smile. I was moved to the point of tears when he shows the famous actor discovering that this new naturalistic delivery of Mark Antony’s famous speech made him feel for the first time that he WAS the character.”