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Writer: Shelagh Stephenson Director: Adel Al-Salloum Reviewer: David Noble The Public Reviews Rating: The last memory of the jollity of panto season was erased by The Long Road, last night. Shelagh Stephenson’s brief look (only 80 minutes) at the effect of a son’s murder on his family, dealt in mortality and the moribund in a way that provided [...]

Writer: Andrew Quick, Pete Brooks and the company Director: Andrew Quick Reviewer: Audrey Pointer The Public Reviews Rating: Developed as part of the British Council’s Creative Collaboration programme, an arts partnership between the UK and South East Europe, Tales from the Bar of Lost Souls is a new theatre show and workshop project by the UK based international [...]

Writer: Alan Janes & Rob Bettinson Director: John Plews Reviewer: Ian Foster The Public Reviews Rating: Previously a long-running staple of the West End, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story returns to North London for its first fringe production in Highgate’s Upstairs at the Gatehouse. It tracks the meteoric rise of Buddy Holly who managed to become one of [...]

Artistic Director: Davis Nixon Composer: Claude-Michel Schonberg Orchestrator: William David Brohn Reviewer: Sarah Lyth The Public Reviews Rating: Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is famous for its raging passions amidst the bleak backdrop of the moors. The wild winds of the soul and of the changing seasons on the hills within the narrative of one of my most beloved [...]

Writer: David Mamet Director: Chris Honer Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: One thing you can rely on with a David Mamet play is a multi-layered, sharp and fascinating script. A play that throws just as many questions in the air as it answers and Glengarry Glen Ross is another fine example of his hard hitting and [...]

Music and Libretto: Leos Janacek Director: David Alden Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth Reviewer: Honour Bayes The Public Reviews Rating: A stern female face stares at us from behind a vast church like window, her fingers entwined as if in prayer. The poster for the English National Opera’s premier of Leos Janacek’s Katya Kabanova says strength, passion, power. But whilst [...]

Writer: Phyllis Nagy Adaptor: Patricia Highsmith Director: Bob Carlton Reviewer: Michael Gray The Public Reviews Rating: His talents are evident early on. He sits in his modest New York flat, conning a poor cartoonist on the other end of the phone into sending him a tax cheque. He has an answer for everything, does Mr Ripley. His story [...]

Writer: Henrik Ibsen Translator: Michael Meyer Director: Adrian Noble Reviewer: Ann Bawtree The Public Reviews Rating: First performed in 1890 at the height of Henrik Ibsen’s maturity this production has recently left Bath to go on tour and must surely be heading for the West End. It famously dramatises a situation which is common enough. How often have [...]