Review: Dry Rot
You would have thought that by now, the word ‘farce’ would have firmly established itself as an insult. The embarrassingly British, post-war style of perfor...
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Review: The School for Scandal
The contemporary theatrical climate poses a threat to playwrights such as Richard Brinsley Sheridan. His works concern themselves with artifice, gossip and pr...
Review: Directors Showcase: The Burglar Who Failed & Dutchman
No matter what the production, I always find a trip to the Orange Tree Theatre a treat, as its intimate in-the-round setting brings you so close to the action t...
Review: Dickens’ Women
At a time when every passing month yields another blog post bemoaning the number and diversity of roles for women in the theatre, this revival of Miri...
Review: Educating Rita
Educating Rita follows the intellectual journey of hairdresser Rita (or Susan) whose passion for English Literature, for knowledge and for a chance to bette...
Review: Cuddles
Writers have as much potential for peril as for reward when they seek either to be pungently contemporary or conceptually bizarre; execution of the former m...