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Thursday 24th November 2011

‘Macbeth’ @ The New Theatre

It is brave to take on a play as well-known, and as engrained in the Western canon as Macbeth. A lot of thespians take on the challenge of “doing Shakespeare”, yet it is an endeavour that leaves itself open to criticism – let’s face it, everyone seems to…

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Monday 21st November 2011

‘The Hothouse’ @ The New Theatre

Sex, slaughter, betrayal, and all the morbid in-betweens that surround them: The Hothouse cleverly allowed all that is wicked and threatening about authority, tradition, and order to blossom, creating a sweet sense of revolution that was easily accessible to the audience. Although the play was originally written in…

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Friday 18th November 2011

‘Much Ado About Nothing’ @ The Djanogly Theatre, Lakeside Arts Centre

This touring co-production of Much Ado About Nothing created by Mappa Mundi and Theatr Mwldan, both from Wales, has updated, with great success, one of Shakespeare’s best loved comedies. The play is set between the world wars, intending to show the position of women in a society traditionally…

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Friday 18th November 2011

‘Journey’s End’ @ Theatre Royal

Journey’s End follows the lives of five officers on the front line and their interactions with each other whilst waiting for the ‘final push’ of the First World War. It shows that the power of war can cause physical and psychological destruction as we see how, in only four short…

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Friday 11th November 2011

‘Be My Baby’ @ The New Theatre

“The last thing your father needs is a little tramp turning up on the doorstep.” These words spoken by Mrs Adams (Sophie Holmes) in Be My Baby show just how socially bound the characters on stage truly are in this emotional yet lightly humorous play. Set in 1964, Be…

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Sunday 6th November 2011

Win a pair of tickets to see ‘Journey’s End’ @ Nottingham Theatre Royal

Impact Arts is running a competition to win a free pair of tickets to see Journey’s End at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal on Tuesday, the 15th of November. Synopsis: R.C. Sherriff’s multi-award winning play is coming to Nottingham directly from London’s Duke of York Theatre; it is an unequivocal masterpiece of…

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Sunday 6th November 2011

‘Look Back in Anger’ @ The New Theatre

“I said she’s an old bitch, and should be dead! What’s the matter with you? Why don’t you leap to her defence!” This outburst, one of Jimmy’s (Hugh Purves) most offensive towards his unflinching wife Alison (Zoe Plummer) and about his mother-in-law, epitomises the volatility of John Osborne’s…

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Saturday 29th October 2011

‘Séance on a Sunday Afternoon’ @ The Djanogly Theatre, Lakeside Arts Centre

So it’s not Sunday, in fact it’s Saturday, meaning that already I’m feeling a little confused by my visit to the Djanogly Theatre at the Lakeside Arts Centre. I’ve been told Stephen Lowe’s newest play Séance on a Sunday Afternoon  is a comedy but it is only upon walking into…

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Friday 28th October 2011

‘Abigail’s Party’ @ The New Theatre

The New Theatre season has arrived, kicking off with a brilliant piece of comedy-drama that is as witty as it is well observed. Abigail’s Party sweeps us back to 1977 to give us an insight into middle class domestic life; the play centres on an evening party held…

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Saturday 22nd October 2011

‘Fresher’s Fringe’ @ The New Theatre

Take one big group of Freshers, add fifteen Directors and throw twelve scripts into the mix to get one epic performance. Challenge accepted and completed by the New Theatre who presented this year’s up and coming recruits at their very own ‘Fresher’s Fringe’. The cast performed extracts from…

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