Beauty and the Beast

2024 brings a wealth of celebrations to the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury. Resident producers Evolution Productions mark their 20th anniversary, whilst musical director Chris Wong reaches

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Dick Whittington

In regional theatres up and down the country, people who still know how to do panto put on a show at Christmas for an audience

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The Crumple Zone

Rather like those classic ‘lonely at Christmas’ songs, there’s something comfortably familiar about a story of love and heartbreak set at Christmas, and The Crumple Zone has

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Being Sophie Scholl

Even if you know little about the heroic stand taken against Hitler’s regime by the German student Sophie Scholl, you will guess the likely outcome

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Pinocchio

The Theatre Royal Stratford opened exactly 140 years ago this month, and Carlo Collodi’s story of puppet Pinocchio is just a year older. It doesn’t

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Draining the Swamp

Sir Oswald Mosely is a curious figure in British history: a veteran of the Great War turned anti-war advocate. He was also a popular and

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The Trials of Galileo

Galileo sits alone in a room recalling a trial that consigned him to life imprisonment. It is a story that illustrates the ruthless corruption of

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Jack and the Beanstalk

It’s a sign of a successful panto when the performers are struggling to continue because they can’t stop laughing. There are two action-stopping moments in

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