Review: ‘Girls Like That’ by Feather Theatre Company
‘Girls Like That’ by the Feather Theatre Company was a bold and honourable attempt at highlighting some of the inequalities between the genders as well as what it is like…
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Review: ‘Things I Know to be True’ by Collingwood Woodplayers
Woodplayers’ adaptation of Andrew Bovell’s Things I Know to be True was energetic, vibrant and deeply thought-provoking. The audience were thoroughly engaged in the story, which depicts the trials and…
Review: ‘Death’ by Hild Bede Theatre
To take a play from one of America’s most iconic comedians (Woody Allen) and gel 19 Freshers into an effective unit is a rather tall order, and yet debut director…
Review: ‘Company’ by DULOG
Arguably the first concept musical, Company centres around commitment-phobe Robert as he interacts with his oddball assortment of married friends, learning about the various benefits and pitfalls of married life.…
Review: FHTC’s ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’
Entering the modest and unassuming venue of Kenworthy Hall at St. Mary’s College, with its simplistic set-up blurring the lines between stage and audience, may not have led some to…
Review: HBT Presents ‘The 39 Steps’
Hild Bede Theatre’s production of ‘The 39 Steps’, directed by Hugo Millard was a unique and entertaining take on the well-loved adventure classic. ‘The Thirty-Nine Steps’ was originally a 1915…
Director’s Note: ‘Company’
Durham University Light Opera Group (DULOG) introduces their production of the Broadway musical ‘Company’, directed by Mary Lord. In preparation for the show’s run on the 20th-23rd of November, Mary…
Review: Lion Theatre Company’s ‘If We Got Some More Cocaine’
I wasn’t really sure what to expect from Lion Theatre Company’s If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You. Cocaine? Definitely. Could guess there…
‘Intense and unsettling’- Review of Suffragette Theatre Company’s ‘Five Kinds of Silence’
As the first show in the new Assembly Rooms Theatre, I had high expectations for Suffragette Theatre Company’s ‘Five Kinds of Silence’. A play described by the director Aaron Rozanski…
Review: The Yellow Wallpaper
Being an incurable fanatic of Gothic literature, I was hugely excited to observe how Hild Bede Theatre had moved to animate Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, on…