Review: Letterbox Production’s ‘Bronte’
Brontë is a poetic and moving exploration of aspirations, longing, and the relationship between life and text. Letterbox Productions’ Brontë melds the real and fictional worlds of the Brontë sisters,…
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Review: Wrong Tree’s ‘Away’
I was impressed by the imaginative perspectives and strong ensemble acting in Away. Wrong Tree’s Away is a devised show that explores the issue of homelessness through the imagination of…
Writer’s Note: ‘A Christmas Carol’
Writer Fraser Logue introduces Rocket Theatre Company’s adaptation of the classic novel ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens. Yes, pour the mulled wine and put on your gaudiest jumpers! On…
Review: TDTC Presents ‘Ordinary Days’
The ‘Tone Deaf Theatre Company’ certainly delivers with their energetic new production of ‘Ordinary Days’, which expresses the everyday anxieties of modern life and the isolation which comes from living…
Review: ‘Four Minutes Twelve Seconds’ by Suffragette Theatre Company
As someone who has read and watched a lot of plays, I have always had a problem with what I have termed ‘rape plays’; plays which attempt to use such…
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…
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: 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…
Chekhov’s ‘Uncle Vanya’ : An investigation of the value of authentic performance in association with Durham University Classical Theatre.
Why should humanities students see this play? Read on to hear producer Isobel on the virtues of authentically performed Chekhov.