Listings - British Theatre Guide
2 days ago · The Snowmaiden. Rimsky-Korsakov. English Touring Opera. Exeter Northcott Theatre, Exeter. 6 – 9 November 2024.
Theatre review: DNA at New Wolsey Theatre - British Theatre Guide
DNA by prolific writer Dennis Kelly was born out of a National Theatre initiative to develop plays for young people specifically between 14 and 18 years old.. It has since become a set GCSE text and been studied by up to 40,000 students. Debuted in 2008, it has its roots in the classic novel Lord of The Flies as, like that iconic story, it deals with pack mentality, bullying, peer pressure and ...
North West - British Theatre Guide
Nov 2, 2024 · Lizzie. Music by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer and Alan Stevens Hewitt, lyrics by Steven Che... Hope Mill Theatre. Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester. 17 October – 10 November 2024.
Theatre review: Frankenstein at Exeter Northcott Theatre
As the rough, naked wood hut walls pull back to reveal an early 20 th century laboratory, complete with specimen cabinets and dominated by a huge arched window over the centre of the stage, the story Frankenstein starts to tell to the stranger is played out before us. The first half of the evening is somewhat disorientating and certainly slow.
Theatre review: Aladdin at Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury
Aladdin is possibly the first pantomime to credit a Sensitivity Reader in Daniel York Loh. There’s no lazy punning of Asian cuisine or derogatory jokes based on pronunciation; instead, the Marlowe Theatre’s production relocates the action to a Canterburyesque Sturry Road, the site “where East meets West”, enabling the presentation of ...
South East - British Theatre Guide
Nov 16, 2024 · Collapsing Theatres. 19 July 2024. For a few days last year, the plight of theatres blighted by RAAC made headline news. The story may have gone away, but the problem hasn't. The latest news, features and reviews from theatre, opera and dance in Chichester, Guildford, Newbury throughout the south east of England outside London.
Theatre review: An Experiment with an Air Pump at Lion and …
Shelagh Stephenson's play, An Experiment with an Air Pump, first seen at the Royal Exchange in 1998, offers a whole series of moral problems across two centuries, for it is simultaneously set in the same room at the end of 1799 and the end of 1999, switching from one date to the other.Indeed stretching much further, Cara Newman's set, its walls covered with anatomical drawings and notes that ...
Murder on the Orient Express - British Theatre Guide
Almost a century ago, Agatha Christie sat in room 203 at the Baron Hotel in Aleppo, Syria and began writing one of her most acclaimed books, Murder on the Orient Express.Her final public appearance, forty years following its publication, was at the première of the 1974 adaptation starring Albert Finney as the masterly investigator Hercule Poirot.
I Love You Mum - I promise I won't Die - British Theatre Guide
Tie It Up Theatre gives a powerful performance of I Love You Mum – I Promise I Won’t Die on Fringe Player. It’s strong ensemble work from four highly talented actors who multi-role to tell this harrowing true story. The play starts with a glowing tribute from his actual parents, Tim and Fiona Spargo-Mabbs, who describe Dan as ...
South West - British Theatre Guide
Nov 16, 2024 · Collapsing Theatres. 19 July 2024. For a few days last year, the plight of theatres blighted by RAAC made headline news. The story may have gone away, but the problem hasn't. The latest news, features and reviews from theatre, opera and dance in Bristol, Cornwall, Bath, Devon and throughout the south west of England.