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Lecesne has a winning charm and a cast-iron technique, so his spinning wheel presentation of a myriad of small town character types is absolutely engaging and subtly preaching. You never lose track of which character is speaking. He tells the tale in a beguiling way, never do…
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This is a genial, quietly satisfying set of reflections on how hard rural life can be and how mostly distant it has always been from any kind of Arcadian idy…
Tim Hochstrasser
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Stitching is an interesting and challenging play, undermined by a late twist, but still engaging. There are a number of moments which will take some people a…
Matthew Lunn
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Part Felicity Kendall, part Carol Channing, with just a soupçon of Jo Grant (The Doctor Who companion she first played about forty five years ago) and legs t…
Stephen Collins
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Valhalla is an intense and gripping production, which showed its class in very difficult circumstances. Whilst the ending could do with some work, it is clev…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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It both shines a light on a corner of society which is misunderstood and unfairly vilified and, examines the rules, conventions, habits and language of a par…
Stephen Collins
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The Sweethearts is a truly fascinating play, and I am certain that Sarah Page has a very bright future as a playwright. The theme of heroism is particularly …
Matthew Lunn
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If you attend the theatre regularly, you will undoubtedly have encountered that rare, awful, but entirely exquisite, moment when an actor dries, a prop fails…
Stephen Collins
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Bricusse's output is so prodigious and so tuneful that only the tone deaf would not find lots of numbers here satisfying and delicious. Many will find somet…
Stephen Collins
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