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Continue reading →: One Last Push by Chris Chibnall.
A brand new comedy from the writer of Broadchurch Chris Chibnall sees his latest comedy play One Last Push debut at the Salisbury Playhouse. Jen (Laura Main) is now three days overdue and is adamant that she will have a home birth despite the flat the couple have recently moved…
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Continue reading →: Rapunzel presented by The Phoenix Players.
RAPUNZEL the magic of Pantomime in February “Oh no it isn’t” Well I can assure you “Oh yes it is” and packed with all the charm of the season too. Newly qualified primary school teacher Sophie Nickerson directs this year’s Pantomime for the Phoenix Players. A real bonus for the…
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Continue reading →: Lear’s Shadow performed by Colin Hurley.
Lear’s Shadow devised by Colin Hurley offers a superb one-man performance using only words from the Shakespeare play King Lear. All bar one which I failed to spot. Hurley doesn’t recreate the play yet by the end you are in no doubt as to what the King had endured through…
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Continue reading →: Edward Scissorhands adaptation by Matthew Bourne.
Tim Burton’s famous, cult classic 1990’s gothic story Edward Scissorhands tells the enchanting story of a young unfinished artificial boy who has been made with scissors for hands. Matthew Bourne has created a magical dance production of Edward Scissorhands which first premiered in 2005 and is currently touring with the…
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Continue reading →: Shakespeare’s Fool by Tortive Theatre.
Shakespeare’s Fool has been developed and lengthened slightly since I first saw it during the Edinburgh Fringe a couple of years ago. The additional material is subtle and the main body of the play appears to have remained the same, well as far as I could tell anyway. Cavaliero William…
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Continue reading →: Pretty Woman The Musical.
The touring production of Pretty Woman The Musical contains all the charm of the original film which starred Richard Gere and Julia Roberts. An ill-matched couple on the surface who in the space of six days turn each other’s lives around and change the way that they view themselves. Handsome…
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Continue reading →: RAPUNZEL performed by balletORENT.
RAPUNZEL has always been a fairytale I have always been aware of but I haven’t necessarily fully understood the backstory behind the tale. Where a young girl is imprisoned in a tower by the woman she believes to be her Mother, the Witch. Writer Carol Ann Duffy and Liv Lorent,…
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Continue reading →: Candace Bushnell-True Tales of Sex, Success and Sex and the City.
In 1998 newspaper columnist Candace Bushnell broke through into television with a new series adapted from her regular column called Sex and the City which was aired on HBO and created by Darren Star. Candace Bushnell-True Tales of Sex, Success, and Sex and the City is now taking her Success…
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Continue reading →: Sherlock Holmes and the Poison Wood.
Bringing Sherlock Holmes into the modern world is quite a challenge. In Sherlock Holmes and the Poison Wood Metta Theatre launches Sherlock Holmes into a world that the original Holmes would never have recognised. Especially performed with musical numbers throughout the performance. Dr Watson’s (Me’sha Bryan) children being a whizz…
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Continue reading →: Bronco Billy The Musical.
Bronco Billy drives his show bus “Buster” into Charing Cross Theatre with his latest show. Antoinette Lily (Emily Benjamin) joins the acts as she attempts to stay alive for thirty days, the clause in her Father’s will that would allow her stepmother Constance Lily (Victoria Hamilton-Barritt) to inherite everything should…
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