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Fourteen – Review
| May 27, 2014
A previous play by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti was sensationally shut down after almost causing a riot. Fourteen, a coming-of-age drama which ran at Watford Palace Theatre last week,
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Northern Ballet’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Review
| May 21, 2014
Northern Ballet returned to Milton Keynes Theatre this week with its magical production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It’s a spectacular show in every sense. The dancing
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Review
| May 14, 2014
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe’s début book about a misogynistic and disillusioned working class man in 1950s Britain, was an exposé of rage and rebellion which
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The Play That Goes Wrong – Review
| May 13, 2014
It’s not often that audiences suffer injuries when going to see a show (unless the roof falls in, of course) but a paramedic was on standby throughout last
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Entertaining Mr Sloane – Review
| May 12, 2014
It’s 50 years since controversial playwright Joe Orton launched his career with the black comedy Entertaining Mr Sloane. It’s had a troubled history never quite getting the kudos
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Dance ‘Til Dawn – Review
| May 6, 2014
Dance ‘Til Dawn has all the ingredients of a smash hit show and lucky you if you’ve got tickets. It’s playing at Milton Keynes Theatre until Saturday then
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Stevie – Review
| May 3, 2014
A good time was had by all at Chichester Festival Theatre last night watching Zoë Wannamaker wax lyrical about the life of 20th century eccentric English poet Stevie
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Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story – Review
| April 30, 2014
The success of Buddy, the musical stage show, has way outlived the actual career of its subject. Buddy Holly had just hit the big-time, with a string of
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Black Coffee – Review
| April 29, 2014
In a week when modern actors are being accused of mumbling through TV dramas it is refreshing to sit in a theatre and be able to listen to
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An Intervention – Review
| April 25, 2014
It’s an exhausting 80 minutes watching two unnamed characters verbally slug it out when a row about politics escalates into full scale war. Mike Bartlett’s emotionally charged new
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Every Last Trick – Review
| April 23, 2014
Georges Feydeau must have written his French farce, Every Last Trick, knowing that one day it would fall into the hands of those anarchic clowns of the modern
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Henry IV Parts I & II – Review
| April 17, 2014
Rebellion and insurrection is all around, the king is struggling to keep hold of the Hollow Crown and, amid all the chaos one man reigns supreme. Antony Sher’s
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