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Continue reading →: A Brew to a Kill-Guildford Shakespeare Company.Hogs Back Brewery has been transported back to 1954, and after a brief welcoming speech by Richard Gloucester (Jack Whittam), to the new team rooms at the brewery, it soon becomes a murder scene. Richard and his sister Edwina Gloucester (Emma Fenney) have been working hard to keep the brewery…
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Continue reading →: 1984-Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh.Big Brother has become part of everyday conversation, a phrase that has outlived the dystopian world George Orwell imagined in 1984. David Bowie was sufficiently captivated by the novel to plan a musical adaptation, eventually drawing on its themes for Diamond Dogs, his 1974 album. “We are the dead” is…
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Continue reading →: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat-Theatre Royal PortsmouthThe Portsmouth Players brought big energy to the stage of the Theatre Royal Portsmouth on opening night with their vibrant performance of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The set and the varying musical styles bring a modern and humorous lens to the story of Joseph and his 11 brothers.…
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Continue reading →: Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of)-Salisbury Playhouse.Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of) Presented by David Pugh, by Isobel McArthur after Jane Austen offers a comedic insight into the stories of the families in Jane Austen’s famous novel Pride and Prejudice where the overbearing yet well-meaning Mrs Bennett is desperately trying to find suitors for her daughters to stop…
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Continue reading →: Sewage: Definately Not A Musical-Folkestone Live.Sewage: Definately Not A Musical played to a completely full house at Folkestone Live on Sunday evening. There was quite a buzz in the auditorium as I dare say family and friends took their seats. The storyline follows the timeline from when sewage and water narratives first started in the…
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Continue reading →: Rubbin Wood-Pumpkin Pantos.Pantomime season has started with the festive season just around the corner. As an adult, Pantomimes go. This is a real treat this year by Pumpkin Pantos. Rubbin Wood is based on the tale of Robin Hood with plenty of adult themed humour. Fairy Hanny, the stoned and drunk hippy…
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Continue reading →: We Will Rock You-King’s Theatre Portsmouth.We Will Rock You by Ben Elton has been adapted by Portsmouth Theatre and bought up to date to include “pop legends” from Lady Ga Ga, Tina Turner and Boy George who are all part of the Bohemian outlaws group searching for the “one person” who is going to find…
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Continue reading →: The Pianist-Park 200 Theatre.Władysław Szpilman was born in Poland in 1911 and became a celebrated pianist and composer. When the Nazis invaded, he and his Jewish family were forced into the Warsaw Ghetto, where they endured unimaginable horrors before facing deportation to the concentration and extermination camps. His family was taken, but Szpilman…
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Continue reading →: Just Be A Good Person Actually – Circle and Star Theatre Hampstead
There’s nothing quite like a trip to the theatre to explore the messiness of human relationships, and Just Be a Good Person, Actually, playing at the newly refurbished Circle and Star Theatre above the Horseshoe pub in Hampstead, certainly has plenty to say about love, infidelity and the consequences of…
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Continue reading →: Little Shop of HORRORS-lighthouse Poole.Made by Exeter Northcott in association with Lighthouse Poole and Coventry Belgrade Theatre present their adaptation of Little Shop of HORRORS. As I arrived at the theatre, I noticed some of the audience were carrying soft toy versions of Audrey 2 and were absolutely committed to their night out. Scott…












