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Continue reading →: The Red Shoes- Edinburgh Festival Theatre.At Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre on Tuesday night, the production played to a packed house, the sense of anticipation in the auditorium palpable before the curtain had even risen. Matthew Bourne’s stage adaptation of The Red Shoes arrives as part of a long lineage. The original film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger…
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Continue reading →: James B Partridge – Primary School Bangers at the New Victoria Theatre, WokingSome shows entertain you; this one sweeps you straight back into childhood and hands you a hymn book. James B Partridge brought his Primary School Bangers tour to the New Victoria Theatre in Woking tonight, and for two and a half gleefully nostalgic hours the audience sang like they hadn’t…
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Continue reading →: Lessons from Teacher x-Dorset Born Theatre.Lessons from Teacher x by Erin De Frais begins its new tour in The Sherling Studio at Poole Lighthouse on 15th April 2026. The solo production starring Barbara Smith of (EastEnders) fame takes on the role of a teacher, Camilla, who has recently moved down from London. Cam/Crystal share their secrets…
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Continue reading →: Wind in the Willows-Newbury Corn Exchange.Watching the next generation of performers is always a treat. The latest production to perform at the Corn Exchange in Newbury was a junior and infant amateur production. Organised by arrangement with Nick Hern Books. The Wind in the Willows is the classic children’s tale of friendship, loyalty, and adventure.…
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Continue reading →: The Shawshank Redemption-Fareham Live.The Shawshank Redemption is based on the 1982 novella by Stephen King. It has been adapted for the stage by Owen O’Neil and Dave Jones and is currently touring theatres across the UK. It is set in a maximum secure facility in Maine USA and explores the relationships between long…
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Continue reading →: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang-King’s Theatre Portsmouth.Complete with a flying car, this version of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at King’s Theatre Portsmouth is a fantastic family classic bought to the stage. Jack Edwards directs this wonderful community based production with all the “razzle dazzle” of a huge West End budget production. Paul Clements plays the lead…
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Continue reading →: Iphigenia-Arcola Theatre.Euripides wrote two plays about Iphigenia, well, two that have survived. The first one, Iphigenia at Aulis, is the main source of Serdar Bilis’ adaptation. It concerns King Agamemnon and his grisly solution to the becalming of the ships he wants to go to Troy. His priests say he has…
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Continue reading →: Dear Jack, Dear Louise-Arcola Theatre.Ken Ludwig has written a jewel-like comedy romance that is simple, straightforward, and totally engaging. The burgeoning romance between a young Army doctor in Oregon and a wannabe actress in Manhattan is told exclusively through letters that the couple write, obsessively, committedly, through a fraught period of history: the Second…
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Continue reading →: Invisible Me-Southwark Playhouse Little.Apparently, when you reach a certain age, 60 years old, you start to become invisible and irrelevant. Many are still working but are undervalued and looked through. Writer Bren Gosling captures the despair and loneliness many audience members of a certain age will recognise. Three neighbours who have never spoken…
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Continue reading →: I Was a Teenage She Devil-The Other Palace Studio.If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if an ’80s high‑school movie, a queer horror spoof and a rock musical all collided at once, I Was a Teenage She Devil at The Other Palace Studio has your answer — and it’s every bit as chaotic, camp and crazy as that…
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