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Music: Georges Bizet, Libretto: Meilhac and Halévy Director:Sally Potter Conductor: Edward Gardner Reviewer: Mark Valencia Whereas the last ENO season closed on the fiasco of Kismet, an old musical with dubious operatic credentials, the current one gets into its stride with a true opera that’s often (glibly) dubbed the ‘first musical’. And it’s true – [...]

Writer: Lizzie Nunnery Composer: Conor Linehan Director: Gemma Bodinetz Reviewer: Stephanie Rowe Big things are set to follow for new graduate of the Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Young Writers Programme Lizzie Nunnery if this, her first and flawless full length play is anything to go by. Intemperance is set in 1854, whilst a family live [...]

Book & Lyrics: Ryan Cunningham Music: Joshua Salzman Director: Robert McWhir Choreographer: Robbie O’Riley Reviewer: John Roberts Robert McWhir has taken the brave step of bringing a relatively unknown musical to the British shores for it’s UK Premier, and not only that but to show the piece in his small bijou theatre in the heart [...]

Book: Maureen Chadwick & Ann McManus Music & Lyrics: Kath Gotts Director: Maggie Norris Reviewer: Helen Patrick It’s refreshing to see a show in London’s West end that doesn’t take itself to seriously, If you go to see Bad Girls the Musical don’t go expecting a score of Lloyd-Webber orchestrations, or the acting of a [...]

Writer: William Shakespeare Director: Julia Pascal Reviewer : Zahid Fayyaz They are many ways of staging Shakespeare: from having it set in a artic wasteland, to having it played by an all female cast, to even, in one particularly misguided production at Edinburgh, having it performed in a hop hop style. Pascal theatre company’s adaptation [...]

Writer: Carol Ann Duffy Music: Iain Johnstone Director: Paul Hunter Reviewer: Murray Moss Casanova: a man who confidently slept his way around Europe, boasting of his sexual exploits and living the charmed life of a libertine, right? Wrong. As Carol Ann Duffy and Told By An Idiot relate she is a sexually confident but compassionate [...]

Writer: Michael Frayn Director: Gwenda Hughes Reviewer: Kat Copsey ‘Noises Off’ by Michael Frayn; first performed at the Lyric theatre, Hammersmith in 1982 tells the story of actors on tour performing a traditional sex farce, ‘Nothing On’ whilst embroiled in a farce all of their own. Act one begins with the final rehearsal before opening [...]