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Theatre Review: Electric Rosary, Royal Exchange, Manchester
In these tentative, post-lockdown times, many theatre venues tend to programme safe, obvious, well-known shows, those crowd-pleasers that will guarantee them an audience.
Review: The Lemon Table, HOME, Manchester
Ian McDiarmid is magnificent in the two pieces which make up The Lemon Table, taken from Julian Barnes’s 2004 collection of short stories of the same name.
Review: Road, Northern Stage, Newcastle upon Tyne
Road was Farnworth-born, Jim Cartwright’s first play.
Theatre Review: Dracula – The Untold Story, imitating the dog, Leeds Playhouse
“We have staged Dracula: The Untold Story as a live graphic novel,” says UK theatre company imitating the dog. And that is precisely what they have done.
Theatre Review: Heathers the Musical, Palace Theatre, Manchester
Seeing half-remembered films from the 1980s turned into feel-good theatrical musicals has been a puzzling phenomenon of theatregoing in the past few years.
Theatre Review: Letter to Boddah, Ilkley Playhouse
This is a fine production of an extraordinary play.
Theatre Review: hang, Alphabetti Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne
I’m embarrassed, but it’s necessary to open with a confession.
Theatre Review: The War of the Worlds, HOME, Manchester
I know I used to be a radio drama producer, but surely everyone has heard of Orson Welles’ radio version of War of the Worlds?
Theatre Review: Glee and Me, Royal Exchange, Manchester
Fans of The Take on YouTube will have seen the one about ‘The Sick Girl’ trope.
Theatre Review: Alone in Berlin, York Theatre Royal
More and more these days I am reminded of the prescience of W.B. Yeats’s poem The Second Coming, and particularly the line ‘The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.’
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