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Writer/Performer: Ben Voss Reviewer: Jeffrey Mayhew The Public Reviews Rating: “One of South Africa’s sharpest and most uncompromising satirists, Ben Voss, unleashes a character who represents the face of the new South Africa – the rich, black, opinionated and botox-ed Business Woman of the Year, Beauty Ramapelepele. Here she celebrates winning the largest fabric contract in South African [...]

Creator/Performers: Laura Corcoran & Matthew Jones Reviewer: Katherine Kirwin [Rating 4] Nine months ago at the Edinburgh Festival I queued for 45 minutes in the hope of getting my grubby mitts on some returned tickets for a sold out fringe show called ‘Frisky and Mannish’s School of Pop’ however no-one was stupid enough to give [...]

Writer: Joseph Brady Based on A Doll’s House by Ibsen Director: Joseph Brady and Zoe Swenson-Graham Reviewer: Jeffrey Mayhew The Public Reviews Rating: Let us start by saying this is a very enjoyable night out, just the right length, full of laughs and within a very short stagger of the bar – with no funny stuff about not [...]

Writer: Jonathan Swift Adaptor: Toby Hulse Director: Ade Morris Reviewer: Carol Evans The Public Reviews Rating: Gulliver’s Travels, a classic of English literature, is one of those books that everyone knows about but perhaps few people have actually read, except maybe to their children in an abridged version. But anyone believing that this is kiddies’ fiction, should think [...]

Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: It almost feels a little redundant having to write a review for a production when you know by the time it gets published the whole tour will have been finished and complete, but as we know that is what the job entails. Opening the show as the First half warm up [...]

Writer: John Godber Director: Jen Heyes Reviewer: Iris Beaumont The Public Reviews Rating: September in the rain is about the life of a Yorkshire couple Jack and Liz and their annual holiday to Blackpool, a ritual they have undertook for forty years. Blackpool is in its heyday with Donkey rides, talent contests, saucy postcards, stripy deckchairs, rolled up [...]

Writer: Robert Louis Stevenson Adaptor/Director: Jonny Kemp Reviewer : Steve Turner The Public Reviews Rating: One night in October 1885, so the programme tells us, Robert Louis Stevenson ‘was dreaming a fine bogey tale’ which he turned into The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde. In this production John O’Connor and Jonny Kemp have dreamt up [...]

Writer: Tom Wells Director: Chris Hill Reviewer: Peter Jacobs The Public Reviews Rating: Me, As A Penguin was originally showcased as part of Northern Exposure 2009, the West Yorkshire Playhouse’s season of new writing, and it reappears this spring in a new, full production for a short tour of the UK before returning to its West Yorkshire Playhouse [...]