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The Harder They Come @ The Nottingham Playhouse

Until seeing ‘The Harder They Come’ at the Playhouse this week, I was under the impression that the phrase ‘dancing in the aisles’ was strictly figurative. We’re British for goodness’ sake. How wrong I was.
For opening night at least, this latest revival of the 1970s classic film on stage seemed to break through even the [...]

The Small Things @ The New Theatre

The exams are imminent, but that’s no excuse not to pay a visit to the New Theatre. This week’s performance was interesting to say the least. The intensity of the play was rooted in the script, which focused on a couple reminiscing upon their childhood. But this was a childhood with a difference.
The beginning of the play [...]

The Real Inspector Hound @ The New Theatre

As the spring season returns after its Easter hiatus, The Real Inspector Hound graces the New Theatre stage. This play is an incredibly entertaining foray into the world of the amateur whodunit and snobbish theatre critics, but one that left this critic strangely unsatisfied.
The play, a play within a play, follows two theatre critics, Moon [...]
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Whistle Down the Wind @ The Theatre Royal

Bell Kenwright’s production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Whistle Down the Wind’ at The Theatre Royal is simultaneously uplifting and disturbing. This story of a deeply religious rural community disrupted by the presence of a runaway criminal leaves its audience with more questions than answers.
The inability for the children’s innocence to be shattered and the [...]
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Signs of a Star-Shaped Diva @ The Lakeside Arts Centre

Signs of a Star-Shaped Diva tells the slightly fantastical, but thoroughly heart-warming story of a deaf woman with two names, and two identities. Switching from Sue Graves the undertaker to Tammy Frascati the Deaf Diva may cause complications, but for the audience it provides hilarity and entertainment. This one woman show by Caroline Parker lasts [...]

Excess @ The New Theatre

This week at the New Theatre is Excess, the only student written play of the year, and a triumphant authorial and directorial debut for Cesar Teixeira.
Conceptually ambitious, Excess follows three separate stories and seven separate lives as they intersect one night at a tango bar - I hesitate to detail the plot any more than [...]

H.M.S Pinafore @ The Nottingham Arts Theatre

”If you please…” One of the things that struck me most about this event was the atmosphere surrounding the Gilbert and Sullivan society. I immediately felt welcome and could see how close the society is, and how hard they must have worked to produce this performance. Another thing that really struck me was [...]
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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg @ The Nottingham Playhouse

STAND-UP from the very beginning – yes, one member of the audience was actually asked to stand up as Brian (Mark Benton) yelled out to his classroom. Fits of laughter erupted, and thoughts of ‘don’t pick on me next’ vibrated across the room. Despite this initial embarrassment, A Day in the Death of [...]

The Shape of Things @ The New Theatre

A nerdy student falls in love with a spontaneous and rebellious artist, who tries to sculpt him into shape. She turns out to be crafty in more than just one sense of the word, as her Art exhibition reveals.
There was no set. I wasn’t sure what to make of this to be honest. [...]

Road @ The New Theatre

This week, the New Theatre plays host to Road, a humorous and at times harrowing depiction of a working class town in Lancashire during the 1980s. It is an ensemble piece, with all but one of the actors multi-rolling in order to explore the multitude of people living on’t Road. Stevenson, a first time director, [...]
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