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Continue reading →: Coleridge-Taylor of Freetown by Tayo Aluko.Coleridge-Taylor of Freetown is the third play written and performed by Tayo Aluko. The storyline is set during the period when Coleridge-Taylor moved back to Freetown after a career as a diplomat of his home country Nigeria. The play begins as Coleridge-Taylor is hiding in what I presume to have been…
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Continue reading →: The Tower by Emma Kelly.Based on the first floor of The Fishing Museum on the seafront in Brighton, The Tower is an apocalyptic play that takes a bleak outlook into how the fast-changing climate damage will impact everyday life as we currently know it, the changes in seasons and rising water levels could potentially…
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Continue reading →: Character Flaw by Phillippa Dawson.Pip lives a chaotic life and is sometimes caught up when disastrous things keep happening beyond her control. Just as Pip thinks it’s under control something else takes over. Along with Jean, the Scottish lady inside her head Character Flaw lays bare Pip’s experience of living with ADHD. There’s plenty…
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Continue reading →: I Bought a Flip Phone by Panos Kandumas.Does anyone else feel like that life is waiting to start? I Bought a Flip Phone looks at the detrimental effect mobile phones have had on our everyday lives. Charlie (Panos Kandumas) decides if he removes himself from the screen addiction and buys a flip phone his life might be…
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Continue reading →: MACREADY! Dickens’ Theatrical Friend by Mark Stratford.MACREADY!Dickens’ Theatrical Friend written, staged, designed, and performed by Mark Stratford is a fascinating play about the life and loves of William Charles Macready, born in 1793-1873. With a father who ran a theatre and spent time in debtor prison, he was advised by his father to study at the…
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Continue reading →: GODZ by Head First Acrobats.Four skilled and charismatic Acrobats take to the stage to entertain and wow audiences in GODZ. The four Greek Gods dress to impress their target audience, which from the reactions they received from the auditorium they succeeded. Zeus, their Father is displeased with how the four have currently been behaving.…
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Continue reading →: A Year and a Day by Christopher Sainton-Clark.
A Year and a Day is performed by writer Christopher Sainton-Clark. Spanning just over two months during Nathan’s life yet sixty-five years of his girlfriend’s, friends and family’s life the story begins in County Meath in Ireland and brings us across to Norfolk. Sainton-Clark draws the audience in from the beginning…
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Continue reading →: Party Games by Michael McManus.With the current political climate in the state, it is in and how we have seen it over the last few years, political satire writers are left with a wealth of material. Michael McManus’s new political satire Party Games encompasses the political storylines surrounding the early days of Boris Johnson…
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Continue reading →: Everybody’s Talking About Jamie at Kings Theatre Portsmouth.Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is the heartfelt musical about year eleven Jamie New (Ivano Turco) whose ambition is to become a Drag Artist, much against his career teacher Miss Hedge’s (Sam Bailey) advice which is that he should be a forklift driver! Not an advisable career choice in heels that’s…
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Continue reading →: Captain Amazing by Alistair McDowall.Mark Weinman dons his red cape again and takes the audience on an emotional journey at Southwark Playhouse in his role of Mark, aka Captain Amazing father to Emily, an inquisitive child who keeps him on his toes. Weinman was Mark (Captain Amazing) in Newcastle and Edinburgh Fringe over ten…











