Noises Off Mel Cooper 21/02/2024★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Michal Frayn’s famous farce is as fresh as ever and this touring production is going...
Reviewer's rating As You Like It Mel Cooper 27/07/2023The new production of AS YOU LIKE IT at the RSC is simply a delight from start to finish, though...
Reviewer's rating Unexpected Twist Mel Cooper 02/06/2023The touring company of Michael Rosen’s Unexpected Twist has reached Oxford and lives up to its very fine reputation. Adapted...
Reviewer's rating Julius Caesar Mel Cooper 06/04/2023I was certainly lucky to be at a performance of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar at the RSC in Stratford that had...
Reviewer's rating The Shawshank Redemption Mel Cooper 18/02/2023I have never seen the film that was made of The Shawshank Redemption, a novella by Stephen King that is...
Reviewer's Rating The Tempest Mel Cooper 13/02/2023If I could give this production of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest more than five stars, I would. This is one...
Reviewer's rating The Makropulos Affair Mel Cooper 04/12/2022The brand new production by the Welsh National Opera of Janáček penultimate opera, The Makropulos Affair, is, quite simply, a...
Reviewer's rating La Bohème Mel Cooper 02/12/2022The WNO is touring a La Bohème that gets most things about the opera right. The production by Annabel Arden...
Reviewer's rating Dinner with Groucho Mel Cooper 15/11/2022Dinner with Groucho is a kind of one-act fantasia on the historic fact that T S Eliot and Groucho Marx...
Reviewer's rating Spike Mel Cooper 01/10/2022Spike is an extremely entertaining biographical dramatic comedy about the life of Spike Milligan during his “Goons” period at the...
