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Writer: Jonathan Harvey Director: Fiona Buffini Reviewer: Malcom Wallace The Public Reviews Rating: In December 1960 Coronation Street premiered on ITV and quickly became an institution. Fifty years on the soap has not lost any of its appeal and still attracts the best of best in terms of actors and writers. To celebrate this milestone, and following the [...]

Writer: Lewis Grassic Gibbon Adaptor: Alastair Cording Director: Kenny Ireland Reviewer: Deborah Klayman The Public Reviews Rating: Adapted from the celebrated story by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song is widely held to be one of the most important Scottish novels of the 20th Century. Based in fictional Kinraddie, the tale centres around the fortunes of Chris Guthrie, the [...]

Writer: Jack Klaff Reviewer: Deborah Klayman The Public Reviews Rating: When a very experienced and accomplished actor puts on a one-man show, you can expect it to be an interesting event. What this piece is, however, is an unfocussed rant that has little dramatic or entertainment value, and left most of the audience confused and left me seriously [...]

Writer: Matthew Hardy Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: Ask anybody who was born in the 70s or early 80s what their favourite film was growing up and you will probably hear some of the following answers: ET, The Goonies, Stand by Me but more often than not you will hear the film ‘Willy Wonka and the [...]

Writer: Youn Young Park & Susannah Pearce Director: Jin-Sup Han Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: The Emperors Quest is everything a children’s show should be, well written, beautifully executed with stunning turns and full to the brim with enchanting songs. Ling is a school girl who unlike most of her friends has a love of all [...]

Writer: Werner Holzwarth & Wolf Erlbruch Adaptor/Director: Bernie Byrnes Original Music: Jim Fowler Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: What would you do, if you woke one morning and found out that someone had done a poo on your head…probably exactly what Mole did in this nicely crafted children’s musical adaptation of Holzwarth & Erlbruch’s book; find [...]

Writer: Richard Milward Adaptor/Director: John Retallack Reviewer: Deborah Klayman The Public Reviews Rating: Engaging and electrifying, this adaptation of Richard Milward’s remarkable debut novel has created an arresting and absorbing piece of theatre that no one should miss. The story told in Apples, recounted almost exclusively in monologues, captures the pitfalls of teenage lives lived with little adult [...]

Writer: Ronald Harwood Director: Joe Harmston Reviewer: Mary Tapper The Public Reviews Rating: I approached this play with some trepidation. It has an impeccable pedigree having been written by the Oscar nominated and Academy award winning Ronald Harwood, probably best known as author of The Dresser and screen writer for films The Pianist and The Diving Bell and [...]