The Wind in the Willows

Starting as a series of bedtime stories for Kenneth Grahame’s young son, The Wind in the Willows became a publishing phenomenon. It is hardly surprising

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The Snow Queen

Christopher Hampson’s The Snow Queen first swept through the winter season in 2019 as part of Scottish Ballet’s 50th anniversary year. That wintery precipice just

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False Note

Trauma… A contemporary French play, False Note, about trauma, retribution, and resolution in Ukrainian with English surtitles comes to London from war-ravaged Ukraine for one

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Hey Diddle Diddle

Who doesn’t love a Christmas show, especially one performed by two of our favourite nursery rhyme characters, Nero the cat, who plays the fiddle, and

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Henry V

Headlong’s disturbing take on Henry V, directed by Holly Race-Roughan, shines a light on the way weakness and insecurity in a dictator, a King, can

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Baghdaddy

Baghdaddy opens with flashes of light and loud explosions, the sound of war, before revealing a dad and his loved daughter Darlee celebrating her 8th

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Jack and the Beanstalk

Thirteen years ago, the Lyric Hammersmith heralded a new chapter in its history by bringing pantomime back to its stage. Jack and the Beanstalk kicked

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Alice in Wonderland

The annual festive show at the New Vic in north Staffordshire is usually something special and the 2022 offering is no exception. The theatre’s artistic

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The Possibility of Colour

Pete Carruthers is a man on a mental health mission. As writer, director, producer and an actor in this absorbing studio production he’s also clearly

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Henry V

Headlong’s disturbing take on Henry V, directed by Holly Race-Roughan, shines a light on the way weakness and insecurity in a dictator, a King, can generate

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