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Book & Lyrics: Steven Sater Based on the play by: Frank Wedekind Director: Ben Hunt Reviewers: Steve Burbridge The Public Reviews Rating: ‘Spring Awakening’ is a vibrant and poignant story, set in the late nineteenth century, about a brilliant young student, Melchior (Dylan Stafford), his troubled friend Moritz (Thomas Whalley), and Wendla (Bethany Walker), a beautiful teenage girl [...]

Writer: William Shakespeare Director Dejan Proykovski Reviewer: Michael Gray The Public Reviews Rating: Colchester’s Stockholm – reviewed here last week – goes to Skopje, and Hamlet comes to the Mercury, with the Macedonian actors billeted in the Red Lion and Elsinore arriving in a lorry just two days before curtain up. Deyan Proykovski’s boldly imaginative production has hardly [...]

Adapted by: Rina Vergano Director: Oliver Jones Composer: Juwan Ogungbe Reviewer: Vicky Bell The Public Reviews Rating: The first war on terror – what do you think of? The uprising of the Mau Mau in Kenya may not be a topic we are all familiar with but director, Oliver Jones, is clear in his vision of why this [...]

Reviewer:Maggie Constable The Public Reviews Rating: Paul Zerdin, comic ventriloquist, positively FIZZED at the Corn Exchange, Bedford tonight. He was the first ever outright winner of the Big, Big, Talent Show hosted by Jonathan Ross on LWT by over 100,000 votes. He is certainly one of the more accomplished of the new generation of ventriloquists to have emerged [...]

Director: Michael Gracey Choreography: Andrew Wright Musical Director: Daniel Edmunds Reviewer: Daryl Branch The Public Reviews Rating: Following her great performance at the BBC Prom which celebrated Sondheim’s 80th Birthday, for the next week Caroline O’Connor celebrates her career in showbiz as dancer, singer and actor in her aptly titled show The Showgirl Within. She is joined on [...]

Writer: Dave Simpson Director: Stephen Leatherland Reviewer: Ian Cain The Public Reviews Rating: I must admit that I am becoming rather accustomed to being one of only a sprinkling of men in the theatre auditorium. Having previously reviewed ‘The Vagina Monologues’, ‘Women On The Verge of HRT’, ‘Menopause: The Musical’, ‘Hot Flush!’ and ‘Mum’s The Word’, I can [...]

Writer:Willy Russell Director: Bob Tomson and Bill Kenwright Reviewer: Ann Bawtree The Public Reviews Rating: The audience of Blood Brothers would do well to remember that it started life as a production aimed at secondary school children and was a little more than an hour long. The full version is now celebrating twenty five years of full houses [...]

Writer: Emma Adams Director: Rod Dixon Reviewer: Joanne Hartley The Public Reviews Rating: Ugly is a vision of a future ravaged by the consequences of climate change. As the play’s title suggests, it is not a comfortable sight. On entering the auditorium the audience is met with a foreboding soundscape of haunting desolate wind, eerie white noise and [...]