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If you’re older than sixty, by all means, go and see this play. However, if you happen to be a university student, you will find yourself to be the youngest audience member to see Forever Young by about forty years. The play is an exploration of life in a...

Mystery, murder and mutineers; this adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel combines them all into a fun and frightening adventure across the seas. The plot follows Jim Hawkins (Patsy Ferran), a poor innkeeper’s granddaughter who is pulled into the adventure by a mysterious visitor who’s only possession appears to...

It has taken nearly nineteen years to get me into ballet, but Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake managed it in a mere three hours. Performed for more than 135 years, it is still the world’s favourite ballet, and it’s not difficult to see why. If you, like my former self, see...

White Christmas is an all-singing, all-dancing Christmas explosion. This West End stage version of Irving Berlin’s classic, originally a 1954 film starring Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney, fully encapsulates the 1950s jazzy, happy spirit. White Christmas tells the tale of an army captain and a private who, unbeknownst to the captain, catch...

It would be wrong to dismiss tonight’s cast as a ‘great stage of fools’, as I think nerves were partially to blame for the many blundered lines in tonight’s opening performance of King Lear. It would equally be wrong for me to not address the fluffed lines in my...

The Adventures of Anne Marie de Bourbon – an existentialist ‘puppet drama’ showing as part of the New Theatre’s Fringe season – stubbornly resists classification. An absurdist comedy, pantomime, musical, pirate story and even a lecture, the writer of this theatrical pick-and-mix (Chris Trueman) has found the perfect platform...

As the sound of demonic laughter rang through the auditorium, we knew we were in for a treat. As the lights came up around the source of the noise, Nick Jeffrey (Gorge Mastromas) could be seen wiping sprawls off a blackboard whilst hysterically laughing, before slowly tramping to the...