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Writer: Fiona Peek Director: Jo Combes Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: Salt is the first of this year’s Bruntwood playwriting competition winners to be stages at the Royal Exchange. It is writer Fiona Peek’s first full length piece and one which asks just as many questions than it answers, in a dry and cutting exploration of [...]

Writer: Tim Firth Director: Psyche Scott Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: Occasionally a production will come along and will capture the hearts of a nation, and it seems that Calendar Girls is one such play. Based on the touching true story of Angela Baker and her fellow members of their local Woman’s Institute,  these ladies captured [...]

Writer: Martin McDonagh Director: Paul Kerryson Reviewer: David Noble The Public Reviews Rating: Think Father Ted meets Reservoir Dogs. The Lieutenant of Inishmore is one those rare creations that clearly draw ideas from a multitude of incredibly varied sources yet does not seem clichéd in the slightest. Martin McDonagh’s macabre, cat-butchering spectacle set in early 90s Ireland has [...]

Writer: Neil Simon Director: Jennie Darnell Reviewer: Deborah Klayman The Public Reviews Rating: Set in 1937 in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn this coming of age story brings the audience into the home and lives of the Jerome family. The set is beautifully designed to show the overcrowded but welcoming home that the family have opened up to Blanche and [...]

Writer/Director: Andy Nyman & Jeremy Dyson Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: There has been a lot of hype surrounding the latest co-production between The Liverpool Playhouse & The Lyric, Hammersmith. Ghost Stories has been self proclaimed the Scariest production to grace the theatrical stage, even coming with its own health warning (Please be advised that GHOST STORIES [...]

Writer: Giles Havergal adapted from the novel by Graham Greene Director: Liz Marsh Reviewer: Michael Gray The Public Reviews Rating: Graham Greene’s glorious picaresque adventure – the only book he wrote for fun – is brilliantly brought to life at the Queen’s by Cut to the Chase, their resourceful resident company. Half the fun here is watching necessity [...]

Artistic Director : Smirnov-Golovanov Principal Ballet Mistress : Ludmila Nerubashenko Music: Sergei Prokofiev Reviewer: David Griffiths The Public Reviews Rating: Moscow City Ballet was accompanied by the Moscow Ballet Orchestra, giving the audience an evening of vibrant colour and excitement together with a number of amusing moments. The ballet was performed in three acts, perhaps starting off a [...]

Creator/Director: Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas Reviewer: Sarah Lyth The Public Reviews Rating: Stomp is a worldwide phenomenon. A celebration of all those people who have ever sat at their desks and have been shouted at for tapping. It is a spectacle of sound, dance, colour and movement. Stomp speaks in rhythm, loosens the binds of mediocre daily [...]