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Miss Nightingale - The Burlesque Musical (tour - New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich) starstarstar
8 May 2013
After a previous unsatisfactory outing with a burlesque show in 2012, I approached Matthew Bugg’s Miss Nightingale: A Burlesque Musical with a certain amount of trepidation. This is an art form ....
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Break the Floorboards (tour - Watford, Palace Theatre) starstarstarstar
8 May 2013
You can't really compare previous productions from Rifco Arts with Break the Floorboards, the new piece from Pravesh Kumar and Yasmeen Khan. This one is billed as a dance drama, but – good as....
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Neighbors (High Tide, Halesworth) starstarstarstarstar
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....
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Moth (Tour - High Tide, The Printworks, Halesworth) starstarstarstar
4 May 2013
It’s a dangerous place, school, and the wisest of us create armour to bring us safely through what can be one of the most trying times in our lives. We become bullies or intellectuals, teachers’ pets ....
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Pastoral (tour - Halesworth, The Cut) starstarstarstar
4 May 2013
Nature, so we are told, is red in tooth and claw. You can add "root" to that as far as Thomas Eccleshare's play Pastoral is concerned. When it begins we are in the kitchen of a flat in one of tho....
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Being Tommy Cooper (tour - Guildford, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre) starstarstar
4 May 2013
 Tom Green’s Being Tommy Cooper is not a straight biopic of the late comedian known for his chortle, red fez and untimely demise. Rather it's a theatrical imagining of Cooper’s rise to fame, his re....
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The Great Gatsby (tour - Norwich, Theatre Royal) starstarstarstarstar
30 April 2013
When you read the programme synopsis for David Nixon's ballet based on F Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, your first thought has to be "this is an incredibly complicated story". You....
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The Pajama Game starstarstar
30 April 2013
These are strange times for Chichester. The theatre is experiencing a rich run of success with London transfers aplenty and a regular spot at awards nights and yet, in the middle of this golden peri....
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Dead Guilty (tour - Stevenage, Gordon Craig Theatre) starstarstarstar
29 April 2013
Poison comes in many guises. Not just as a pill or a potion. It can be intangible, something in the mind. Richard Harris' psychological thriller Dead Guilty starts and ends with an inquest. In betw....
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9 to 5: the Musical (Southampton - tour) starstar
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....
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