The Canterbury Tales

* * * * 4 stars

Tabard Productions version of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales has many virtues. The young cast show much versatility in successfully taking on many roles, and Harriet Bradley’s direction of her own adaptation is straightforward and clear. … Read More

The Shade Ain’t right

* * * 3 stars

This is the first play by Adiam Solomon, who has an Ethiopian background. It is an interesting take on racism. The setting is a dressing room in an American cabaret club during the Prohibition era. … Read More

Super Situation

* * * 3 stars

Dressed in a bright, yellow and blue outfit, and playing the part of Extraordinary Girl, Lois Tucker as the writer of the play has taken her inspiration from the style of comic books. She is … Read More

The Collector

Vivid Theatre Company stage this adaptation by Mark Healy of the early ‘60’s novel The Collector, written by John Fowles. This book has been made into a movie, a couple of theatre productions as well as inspiring songs by … Read More

Horse

It was a wet and windy day when I attended this production in the Hullabaloo Bosco tent, a wooden tent and the feeling of a draughty old stable was intensified with bales of straw, a vaulting horse and basically … Read More

The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection …etc   etc   etc

The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection  or the Survival of (R)evolutionary Theories in the Face of Scientific and Ecclesiastical Objections:  Being a Musical Comedy about Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882)  John Hinton gives a splendidly animated … Read More

A Stroke of Genius

A drama having genetics and obsession as the central themes is an interesting combination. The central character is Dora Blake, an eccentric and seemingly harmless librarian, played brilliantly by Leah Milner. She is ably supported by the other members … Read More

Ald Sangs and New Rhymes    –   The Life of Burns

It is an ambitious, indeed courageous, project to stage a two act play in words and song depicting the life and works of Robert Burns in the unusual ‘theatre in the round’ seating style. To get some idea of … Read More

Cool Cutz

Welcome to Cool Cutz, a Beauty salon and the staff of this establishment are some of the most dysfunctional characters you could ever hope to meet in any such establishment. Maggie, the new boss, who dreamed of such a … Read More

The Hotel

I headed up to The Assembly Rooms at George Street where Mark Watson had advised (via the wonder of Twitter) that free tickets would be available for his ‘show’ The Hotel. All I had to do to claim one … Read More