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Continue reading →: Sisters 360-Polka Theatre.Sisters 360, written by Asif Khan, is the story of two hijab wearing stepsisters from a merged Somali-Stani background living in Bradford. Their parents met when they were four and they have been best friends ever since. Their hero is skateboarding legend Sky Brown who won the Olympics in 2020…
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Continue reading →: The Washing Line presented by Chickenshed.The Washing Line has to be one of the most powerful productions I have seen in a while. The scene is set in Guyana in a place called Jonestown at the People’s Temple which had been set up by a preacher called Jim Jones who wanted to build a community…
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Continue reading →: The Society for New Cuisine – Chris Fung.There is more than one question that permeates the mind leaving The Society for New Cuisine on press night but the most prevalent in the aftermath – is he really going to eat those fingers? Chris Fung’s solo show is a punching, powerful new work that leaves you dumbfounded, shocked…
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Continue reading →: Mary and The Hyenas by Maureen Lennon.Mary Wollstonecraft is best known for two things first her book “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792). A radical book at the time of publication in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men but appear to be only because they lack education. Secondly being…
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Continue reading →: Ghost Stories by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman.Professor Goodman played by Dan Tetsell leads Ghost Stories as a lecture to begin with. He studies “ghosts” and the supernatural and takes the audience into some of the people he has spoken to about their own experiences with their unexplained encounters during his career. Whether he believes that ghosts…
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Continue reading →: Stuart Michael-The Psychic Medium.Whenever I review or watch a psychic or magic show I always arrive with a completely open mind. I neither believe nor disbelieve. I would highly recommend every single one that I have seen. Stuart Michael The Psychic Medium has an abundance of personality and charisma. There’s a touch of…
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Continue reading →: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.In 1818, Mary Shelley created one of the most iconic monsters in her gothic novel Frankenstein. The monster remains unnamed and is referred to as Frankenstein’s Monster, Victor Frankenstein creates the creature from various body parts collected over some time “donated” from deceased members of society that nobody would miss.…
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Continue reading →: Bhaijaan at Hope Theatre.Bhaijaan is an honorific which according to a user from the United Kingdom, can mean older brother or dear brother, someone who is not related but is very close. Zain (Samir Mahat) and Khafi (Rubayet Al Sharif) are working class schoolboys from Ilford. Their dream is to become world wrestling…
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Continue reading →: Château Farci by David Shirreff.Alice (Amanda Holt) and Jake (Gregory Cox) co-exist together in a once beautiful Château in France. Jake has been banished to a section of the Château and wallows around in his mess and filth, even their Maid servant played by Natasha Percival refuses to go near the area. The couple…
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Continue reading →: Earnest by Say It Again, Sorry?Say It Again, Sorry? Are billed as “the show that makes you a star” and it doesn’t fail to deliver. Every chosen member of the audience is picked at random, meaning that nobody including the director Simon Slough has any idea of which direction the hilarious comedy production of Earnest…











