 | 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... |
 | The Seagull (Tour - Watford)     25 April 2013 This is an outstanding production by Blanche McIntyre for Headlong (co-produced with the Nuffield, Southampton, in association with Derby Theatre) of Chekhov's play: it is fresh, funny, absolutely o.... More... |
 | Two (Bury St Edmunds Theatre Royal rural tour)     23 April 2013 Jim Cartwright's play for two actors taking on 14 roles between them is a sequence of studies of fracturing relationships and those which have already broken down. Not that yo.... More... |
 | Run For Your Wife (Hornchurch, Queen's Theatre)     22 April 2013 Remember the 1970s? That era of flares and floaty dresses? Of relaxed attitudes to sexuality? Of theatrical feel-good as well as experimentation? Ray Cooney's now classic farce Run .... More... |
 | A One Man Protest (Colchester, Mercury Theatre)     20 April 2013 Nobody does the dark and light nuances of human relationships quite as Ayckbourn manages it. Take A One Man Protest, the second of the quartet from the eight-play Intimate Exchanges sequence which.... More... |
 | Parkway Dreams (tour - Werrington, Ken Stimpson Community School)    19 April 2013 One of Eastern Angles' specialities has always been to marry a new commissioned play to its location and to the people whose stories inspired it. The latest is Parkway Dreams which is about how the.... More... |
 | Black Watch (Norfolk & Norwich Festival, UEA Sportspark)      17 April 2013 Gregory Burke’s Black Watch isn’t easy viewing. The language in this tale of British soldiers during and after the Iraq war is naturalistic and appropriately robust. Its scenes are, by turns, funny an.... More... |
 | Miss Julie (tour - New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich)  16 April 2013 I first reviewed August Strindberg's Miss Julie in 2001when Armstrong Arts brought the 1888 bodice-ripper to the now-dark Spa Pavilion at Felixstowe. At least Michael Armstrong’s surreal version had s.... More... |
 | The Seagull (Southampton - tour)     16 April 2013 Under the direction of award winning Blanche McIntyre, this modern update of Anton Chekov’s The Seagull is fascinating to watch. Adapted by John Donnelly, this production still retains the melancho.... More... |
 | Cider with Rosie (tour - Croydon, Ashcroft Theatre)   16 April 2013 Based on Laurie Lee’s seminal novel, the Cheltenham Everyman production of Cider with Rosie attempts to capture the innocent spirit of a childhood spent in a tight-knit community in the Cotsw.... More... |