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Educating Rita

August 8, 2005 |

The Willy Russell play Educating Rita obviously came to the public’s attention with the movie staring Michael Caine and Julie Walters, and probably because of this exposure is still very popular today as the almost capacity audience will testify … Read More

Drowning Point

August 8, 2005 |

This one-woman play by Nicholas Earl centres on Beth, Claire Porter, a thirty something happily married teacher whose life falls apart when her husband is drowned in a storm whilst he is sailing. If this is not bad enough, … Read More

Don Quixote

August 8, 2005 |

I have seen various versions of the story of Don Quixote de La Mancha but they were seldom as simple to follow as this production. Performed by a small cast of only 6 they cover the adventures well, making … Read More

Don Juan

August 8, 2005 |

This play is in fact an hour-long monologue by the Don himself, played by Glen Naden, giving a potted history of his life and especially his loves for the early part of his life. The different characters are each … Read More

De Bernieres’ Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World

August 8, 2005 |

De Berrnieres’ Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World I must admit that I was unaware that Louis de Bernieres had written any plays, I, like most were aware of his award winning Captain Corelli’s Mandolin but not … Read More

Dealers Choice

August 8, 2005 |

Poker action is the subject matter for this two act play set in a London restaurant. Five characters Steve, the manager, Karl, his son, waiters Mugsy and Frank, and Sweeney, the chef, meet up for a regular card session after the … Read More

Crimes of Passion

August 8, 2005 |

This a stage adaptation of Ken Russell’s movie of the same name by Ricado Pinto, who also directs and stars in this erotic psychological thriller. Struggling family man and Private investigator Bobby Grady, David Nicholson, is hired to check … Read More

The Coming of Golf by P.G. Wodehouse

August 8, 2005 |

A rambling concoction of sketches around the obvious theme of golf. The cast try very hard to bring out the humour in the prose of P.G. Wodehouse, but the story lines are just too lightweight to appeal. All manner … Read More

A Clockwork Orange

August 8, 2005 |

It’s dark, it’s gloomy, there is a threat of menace, it has dark, shadowy characters… and that is only the impression one gets in entering the theatre. In this adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s book, Stanley Kubrick’s movie this nine … Read More

Catch 22

August 8, 2005 |

Reading Joseph Heller’s World War 2 novel Catch-22 many years ago proved to be, for this reviewer, an indelible experience. The first 100 pages or so are incredibly funny, but taking the book as a whole it is really … Read More