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Reviewer: Dave Cunningham The Public Reviews Rating: Lucy Porter opens her new show with the encore. This is to say that, in introducing her support act, she performs the type of short improvised interaction with her audience that most comics would use to conclude the evening. It gives the impression that she is playing safe- tipping us off [...]

Music: Sergei Prokoficv Choreographer: Michael Corder Conductor: Alex Ingram Reviewer: Emily Daughtery The Public Reviews Rating: I was particularly thrilled to be in the audience of the English National Ballet’s Cinderella because I last viewed it from the stage as I stood as the page boy in Act II ten years ago. Consequently I settled down with [...]

Music/Lyrics: David Essex Book: Jon Conway Director: David Gilmore Reviewer: Damian Sandys The Public Reviews Rating: According to the programme notes, David Essex has always had an ambition to present a theatre show based around his music. Following a spell of working together, writer Jon Conway put together a potential synopsis and here is the result…. Essex himself [...]

Writer/Director: Brendan O’Carroll Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: Brendan O’Carroll himself has admitted that this production should have been called ‘I Know a bleedin’ Bandwagon when I see one’ Tour and that couldn’t be truer, after all this is the 5th instalment in the Mrs Brown Trilogy (Yes you did read that right!) I have to [...]

Script: Matthew David Scott Story Consultant: Mark Catley Music: Malcolm Newton (Composer) Choreographer: Lucy Hind and David Toole with Lucy Bennett Reviewer: Peter Jacobs The Public Reviews Rating: Extra-ordinary is a satirical dance piece by acclaimed dancer and actor David Toole and his number one fan Lucy Hind. Something extra-ordinary, created live, before your very eyes. Gauche, aspiring [...]

Writer: Martin Lynch Director: Lisa May & Martin Lynch Reviewer: Tim Stone The Public Reviews Rating: A lot of my formative years in England were during the Northern Ireland troubles and whether I like it or not, I have a lot of strong opinions about what I consider right and wrong. Therefore, when I knew I was attending [...]

Writer Pauline Stafford, Chris Coghill and Nick Clarke. Director: Nick Clarke Reviewer: Poppy Helm The Public Reviews Rating: Crying in the Chapel tells the story of the 1990 riot at Manchester’s Strangeways prison using genuine accounts from the incarcerated and their jailers. Frustrated from the overcrowded conditions and lack of prisoner rights, the residents of Strangeways incited a [...]

Writer: Joan Littlewood & Theatre Workshop Director: Erica Whyman and Sam Kenyon Reviewer: Carol Evans The Public Reviews Rating: Northern Stage’s production of Oh What a Lovely War gives a potent image of the misguided jingoism surrounding the First World War while taking a sideways swipe at the wisdom of present day conflicts. This multi-talented, brilliant ensemble brings [...]