Review: Just So Festival, Rode Hall, Cheshire
Dark speculation in the shower queue: could this be the end of Just So? This delightful family...
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Review: The Tiger Who Came to Tea, The Lowry, Salford
It was as the on-stage doorbell rang for the fourth time that my two-year-old daughter, atop my knee in the semi-dark of The Lowry’s Lyric Theatre, turned to me with a mixture of optimism and desperation to query: “The tiger...
Read MoreReview: Romeo and Juliet, Everyman Theatre, Liverpool
For the final show of the five productions in its revival season, the Liverpool Everyman Company has played it safe with Romeo and Juliet. Except that it hasn’t, quite, for this in fact is Romeo and Julius, Shakespeare’s...
Read MoreReview: Fiddler on the Roof, Liverpool Everyman
It is perhaps appropriate that the Liverpool Everyman’s first rep company in 25 years should open their inaugural production with a rousing song called Tradition. For this is a theatre rich in history, particularly when it comes...
Read MoreReview: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, The Lowry, Salford
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show might be named exclusively after Eric Carle’s globally-famous ravenous insect, but is in fact an hour-long romp through a wider slice of the author’s imagination. Director Jonathan Rockefeller...
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