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The Rainbow Chorus: Fairytale of Kemptown

The Rainbow Chorus: Fairytale of Kemptown

- 2 December 2013

How the standard of amateur choirs has risen over the last few years and here...

The Rape of Lucretia

The Rape of Lucretia

- 29 November 2013

Saddled with perhaps the dodgiest of all opera librettos, director Fiona Shaw has managed the...

Kindertransport

Kindertransport

- 19 November 2013

As time passes fewer and fewer remain who can really tell what it felt like...

The Jenny Johnson Show

The Jenny Johnson Show

- 14 November 2013

In a reworking of the play ‘Sleeping With Straight Men’, Jack Hodgetts has created a...

Emporiumacabre

Emporiumacabre

- 25 October 2013

It has always been the intention of Emporium to form a rep company and with...

Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense

Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense

- 24 October 2013

If, like me, you are a fan of the books, then most renderings of the...

Cabaret

Cabaret

- 2 October 2013

Anyone thinking that Cabaret is a glitzy musical, all sequins and hoofers, should bowl down...

Liza (on an E)

Liza (on an E)

- 1 October 2013

Backed by a sturdy band and an excellent MD, Trevor Ashley propels himself onto the...

Terry Pratchett & Friends

Terry Pratchett & Friends

- 30 September 2013

Pratchett is a legend that created a Legend. The international best-selling author emerged from a...

Another Country

Another Country

- 25 September 2013

Julian Mitchell’s classic play set in a public school requires a cast of believably young...

Neville’s Island

Neville’s Island

- 23 September 2013

Four middle management businessmen from Salford get marooned on an island on Derwent Water during...

Billy Budd

Billy Budd

- 16 August 2013

A stillness fell over the audience as the lights dimmed on Glyndebourne’s production of Billy...




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