Festive Review: Robin Hood, Opera House, Manchester
I haven’t been to a pantomime since I was a child. As it turns out, pantos are much more...
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Theatre Review: Robin Hood, Oldham Coliseum
Robin Hood is not one of the ‘big five’, and for good reasons. Usually combined with the story of The Babes in the Wood as it is here, the plot is complicated, there is nowhere to put the Dame or her idle son, there are too many...
Read MoreFestive Review: Robin Hood – The 80s Panto, Contact, Manchester
Perhaps not thinking of panto at the time, Orson Welles once quotably opined: “The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” Nonetheless, his after-dinner aphorism fits the peculiarly British form of seasonal theatre like a...
Read MoreA Meteorological Gamble Pays Off
“Fancy driving to Lancaster to see an outdoor performance in the park?” came the request from Northern Soul a couple of months ago. With a pinch of the Dunkirk spirit I said “yes”, well aware that my...
Read MoreWanted! Robin Hood
If you’re putting on a big, family-friendly theatre production at this time of year, essentially you’re faced with two options. You can go for a full-on, traditional “It’s behind you!” panto, or else you can...
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