CREEKSHOW

It is easy to live our lives in a place without ever being aware of its particular ecosystem, the special historical context that made it

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Ernani

Verdi’s fifth opera may feature the sort of implausibility that gives the genre a bad name, but it also contains such a succession of rich

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Bang

Bang is the story of Joan Vollmer, one of the pivotal women in the group that defined the Beat Generation who, despite being one of

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A Mirror

The foyer and theatre are decked out for a wedding with balloons, pink and blue ribbons and flowers; there is a wedding cake on the

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Internal

Internal is a new work by Canadian Tania Tuusa, who also performs this solo show about a painfully lonely and unconfident young woman. The story

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Great Expectations

This clever relocation of Dickens’s well-known story to India at the turn of the twentieth century when the British were trying to partition Bengal retains

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I Believe in One Bach

Written and performed by Chris Brannick and Karen Kirkup, I Believe in One Bach is a psychological drama following Alan Gottelib, a 2nd violinist being

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Self-Raising

There is something about Jenny Sealey which is mesmerising. Having spent a career fighting for the rights of differently able people to get onto a

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Snake in the Grass

Variety has definitely been the byword for the 2023 Classic Thriller Season at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal. As usual, four plays have been performed in four

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Henry VIII

When it comes to English royalty, Henry VIII must surely be the personality most often depicted across various art forms. In addition to numerous portraits

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