 and Simone James in Neighbors HIGHTIDE 2013 Credit Bill Knight.jpg) | Neighbors (High Tide, Halesworth)      4 May 2013 It’s a bold director who, in these racially sensitive times, chooses a play in which five of the eight characters ‘black up’ as side-show minstrels. However, when the director is High Tide’s Stephen A.... More... |
 | Smallholding (Southampton)   30 April 2013 Smallholding is based around the over familiar subject of a disintegrating relationship. The play opens as married couple, Andy and Jen, arrive at a dilapidated farmhouse. Andy is a drug addict and be.... More... |
 | 9 to 5: the Musical (Southampton - tour)   29 April 2013 With the Dolly Parton and film connection you expect 9 to 5 to be a feel good musical. However it lacks a sympathetic personality to engage with. Most of the leading characters are wafer thin stereoty.... More... |
 | Proof (Bath)      29 April 2013 Proof by David Auburn, currently showing at The Theatre Royal in Bath is a fascinating and compelling play. Set on the back porch of a house in Chicago, it unfolds scene by scene, showing a jigsaw pu.... More... |
 | The Mousetrap (Bristol)      29 April 2013 If any play has the right to call itself a British institution then it is most certainly The Mousetrap. Agatha Christie’s own deductive powers were proved wanting when the author herself predicted tha.... More... |
 | A Man of No Importance (Salisbury)     27 April 2013 Terrence McNally’s A Man of No Importance, made into a little known film starring Albert Finney back in 1994, is not an obvious candidate for receiving a musical ‘treatment’ in it’s adaptation for the.... More... |
 | That Moment (Bath)     26 April 2013 I saw Second Face Theatre Company’s production of Dougie Blaxland’s one-woman play at the Mission Theatre in Bath – a gem of a venue in case (like me) you have not been there before, ideal for intimat.... More... |
 | The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs (Bristol)     24 April 2013 With Marmite, you either love it or hate it. It is a black and white issue and rarely are there fence sitters. With Apple Mac products, there are sub-categories: Love, Hate, Crave, and Drool. Whatever.... More... |
 | 4000 Miles (Bath)      18 April 2013 4,000 Miles by Amy Herzog is an exquisite play bursting with humanity, honesty and searing emotions cut through with razor wit and observations. An essentially simple story of love, loss and lonelines.... More... |
 | The Islanders (Bristol)      18 April 2013 It’s easy to look back on your adolescent years with either a fuzzy warm ‘wonder years’ style nostalgic gaze or alternatively to squirm at the memory of the sheer awkwardness of it all. Amy Mason’s Th.... More... |