Aladdin Mel Cooper 08/12/2015he pantomime season is upon us and I have just attended the Oxford Playhouse contribution to the genre for 2015...
Reviewer's Rating Scarborough Emily Louizou 08/12/2015ictive Theatre presented its own take on Fiona Evans’ engaging play Scarborough and gave us a rather strong performance. The...
Reviewer's Rating Aladdin Esmé Hawkins (age 10) 08/12/2015he Mercury Theatre in Colchester’s pantomime is a yearly Christmas treat – this time it’s Aladdin. There is an orchestra...
Reviewer's Rating Piaf Caroline Perret 06/12/2015elebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of most loved French icon singer Edith Piaf, the singing play is strong...
Reviewer's Rating Kwaku, Ananse & other African folktales Urvashi Vashist 05/12/2015he first thought a reviewer has as the lights dim is that it is curious musicians have not more ubiquitously...
Reviewer's Rating Linda Emily Louizou 04/12/2015enelope Skinner’s Linda is a tremendously strong piece of new writing, and a bold comment about how sexist our society...
Reviewer's Rating Wendy and Peter Pan Harry Tennison 04/12/2015lla Hickson deliberately renames her adaptation of J.M.Barrie’s classic novel, and with good reason. In this revival of their original...
Reviewer's Rating The Distance Tom Aitken 02/12/2015hen this play was premiered at the Orange Tree in October 2014 described as ‘an amazing evening’. This remains the...
Reviewer's Rating Here We Go Alastair Curtis 01/12/2015t comes at you suddenly, doesn’t it: death that is, though the character could easily be describing Caryl Churchill’s new...
Reviewer's Rating The Twelfth Battle of Isonzo / Judith: A Parting from the Body Owen Davies 30/11/2015his double bill of two short plays by Howard Barker provides an extra-ordinary evening of theatre. The plays are disturbing...