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Writer: Noel Coward Director: Emma Rice. Reviewer: Gregory Hale and Lucy Cosens When theatre gets it right, it gets it right! Kneehigh’s Artistic Director, Emma Rice, has created a show that is an absolute masterpiece, a quintessential theatrical production, combining breathtaking imagery, sharp physicality and prodigious Knee High resourcefulness. The story follows the brief encounter [...]

Based on book by: Hugh Lofting Book, Music & Lyrics: Leslie Bricusse Director: Bob Tomson Reviewer: Peter Barnett As soon as the curtain rises the audience are transported to a world similar to Disney. An impressive ensemble lead by Conor Michael-Sheridan as Matthew the Doctor’s assistant set the scene of Puddleby-By-The Sea. A name like [...]

Writer: Simon Schama Adaptor: Caryl Phillips Director: Rupert Goold Reviewer: John Roberts One has to sit back and admire how well Rupert Goold is doing, but the question is, is he just this season’s hot property or is he here for the long haul? My answer would be if he isn’t either running the national [...]

Writer: Monteverdi Director: Chen Shi-Zheng Conductor: Lawrence Cummings Reviewer: Mark Valencia In the primitive operatic landscape of early 17th-Century Italy, Monteverdi was able to write his music dramas untroubled by constraints of form or convention. The operatic rulebook was as yet unwritten so his creativity could prosper unconfined. It is therefore no surprise that the [...]

Writer: Christopher Marlowe Adaptor :Rupert Goold & Ben Power Original Direction: Rupert Goold Director: Steve Marmion Reviewer: David Saunders The much vaunted Rupert Goold and his Headlong Theatre Company arrived in Southampton on Thursday bringing with them their new adaptation of Marlowe’s story of Doctor Faustus. The piece has been well received on its tour [...]

Writer: Bryony Lavery Director/Choreography: Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett Reviewer: Murray Moss Stockholm Syndrome, which provides the central metaphor for this play, is the name for the strong and intimate relationship that perversely can exist between a victim and an aggressor in hostage situations. Stockholm is also the city that Todd and Kali, the two [...]

Devisors: Matthew David Scott, J.C Marshell & Company Reviewer: Mal Wallace Underground marks a significant first for Yorkshire based theatre company Slung Low. This is the first production they have taken into a theatre having previously created theatrical works for more unusual spaces. The intimate Contact Theatre would appear to be the ideal venue to [...]

Writer: Rodgers and Hammerstein Director: Julian Woolford Choreography: Chris Hocking Reviewer: Zahid Fayyaz Halfway through their regional tour, this new production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein production comes to Wimbledon. Set on a south Pacific Island during World War 2, this is the story of a nurse, Nellie Forbush, and her relationship with ‘mysterious’ French [...]