It’s 40 years since Noises Off burst on to the West End stage and it has maintained the reputation of being one of the greatest British comedies. Tonight this Theatre Royal Bath production hit the stage of York Theatre Royal and it’s safe to say that the audience loved it.
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The Royal Shakespeare Company bills this production as ‘a fast paced political thriller which forces us all to consider how far we would go for our political principles.’
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Last night I was totally enthralled by Livy Potter who appears in a 75 minute monologue by Gary Owen at theatre@41. She gave a bravura performance!
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The company “Told By an Idiot’s” production of Charlie and Stan tells the story of Stan Laurel’s early career as the understudy to Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin remained in America and became a super star of the cinema. But if that had not happened we would have never have had the inspired comedy of Laurel and Hardy so maybe it all worked out for the best?
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Yesterday I attended a full house at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre; I have never seen it so packed before. I was unable to see the 2019 production and clearly, it has gathered fans since then. But will this show be a success in London?
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I love the play Peter Pan and I love pantomime but I didn’t believe the two could merge until I saw this year’s production at York Theatre Royal and now I’m a convert to Christmas entertainment fusion!
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The title tells us all this is a comedy. Sometimes riotously funny and always fast-moving. I think there is another play in there trying to get out.
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You know to expect something innovative and amazing when at a Frantic Assembly production and their version of Othello is no exception. We entered the auditorium to loud drum and bass music and were thereby prepared for a street version of a play written 400 years ago.
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I wasn’t sure quite what this performance would be. Based on two lectures given by Virginia Woolf in 1928, I knew that I would learn about the struggle of women writers to be published and accepted in Literature’s history. What I wasn’t expecting was the range of material and examples that Rebecca Vaughan referenced.
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