Category: Reviews

There’s no denying there’s the guilty pleasure of schadenfreude in watching two twenty-somethings argue with each other for the best part of an hour. From the outset, director Sarah Majland has the two characters move around each other like unevenly matched opponents in a ring with David consigned once again to play audience and punchbag… Continue reading Tell Me You’ll Think About It

Newlywed Ali (Nicole Evans) experiences massive buyer’s remorse. She wonders, having lived happily with her partner Les (Darren John Langford) for years, if it was a wise choice to spaff £30,000 on a honeymoon and a wedding attended by just 15 of their friends and her less aggressive relatives. Husband Les, however, is undergoing his… Continue reading Les & Ali’s Big Balearic Adventure

Stacey is the perfect fit for her role as the weather girl at the American television station in Fresno California which wants to relax its viewers rather than worry them with unnecessary updates on the weather gloom. Stacey looks and sounds the part with her broad, warm smile, long blonde hair and tight-fitting pink skirt… Continue reading Weather Girl

The Estévez / Paños Company was formed in 2003, with both of the founders side-tracking briefly (in 2017–18) to the Ballet Flamenco Andalucía as respectively artistic director and principal dancer. Winners of several prizes, in 2019 they won the National Dance Award. La Confluencia was created in 2021. Choreographer and dancer Valeriano Paños is the… Continue reading La Confluencia

Curl Girl Productions is a West Midlands-based theatre company, led by artistic director Kiren Jogi, which focusses on South East Asian culture. The Valley of Queens is a piece of verbatim theatre performed by a cast of five women. It was created out of a project funded by Creative Black Country in which women aged fifty and… Continue reading The Valley of Queens

After the phenomenal success of Matilda, it seemed only natural to give this even more famous Roald Dahl’s story a theatrical refresh from the version written by schoolteacher Richard George nearly fifty years ago. This adaptation brought together Scottish playwright David Greig with the songwriting team behind Hairspray, Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. The audience… Continue reading Charlie And The Chocolate Factory – The Musical

Wonderful to see a packed theatre buzzing with anticipation. The lights dim, evocative music begins, then blackout! Eight actors enter, and so the journey begins and it is a journey. Dad, played by Trevor Fox, returns to his childhood home and finds himself beside the old Sussex farmhouse pond where he used to play. He… Continue reading The Ocean at the End of the Lane

For the fourth year running, Paul Hendy and Emily Wood’s Evolution Productions has teamed up with York Theatre Royal’s Juliet Forster to present a family-oriented and feel-good take on a traditional Christmas panto. Sticking closely to the conventional plot, Sario Solomon’s Aladdin (but you can call him Al) goes from rags to riches in his… Continue reading Aladdin

Hairspray, the musical you can’t help but warm to, is the summer production at the unique Kilworth House Theatre. This open-air venue is set deep in South Leicestershire’s gently rolling countryside; cross the bridge festooned in fairy lights and, in the midst of a wooded glade, ‘sail’ canopies protect the 550-seat audience and stage. Early… Continue reading Hairspray, The Broadway Musical

Secrets and lies abound in The Housetrap,but will the audience ever correctly guess whodunnit? For the finale of their 18th birthday celebrations, Guildford Shakespeare Company (GSC) is on the road again, and instead of taking a flight of fantasy on a Boeing 747, they are instead in residence at the magnificent West Horsley Place. Star of BBC’s Ghosts and… Continue reading The Housetrap