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Writer: William Shakespeare Director: Christopher Luscombe Reviewer: Maggie Constable The Public Reviews Rating: A real first and what a first! The world-renowned Globe Theatre, London brings to Milton Keynes Theatre “The Merry Wives of Windsor” a lesser well-known play by Shakespeare. However, that does not mean that the piece will be any less worth watching. Au contraire!-I was [...]

Writer: Agatha Christie Director: Joe Harmston Reviewer: Steve Burbridge The Public Reviews Rating: It goes without saying that Agatha Christie is ‘Queen of the Whodunnit’ and a literary force to be reckoned with. Only the Bible is known to have outsold her collected sales of roughly four billion copies of novels. ‘The Mousetrap’ is now the longest-running play [...]

Writers: Gilbert & Sullivan Director & Designer Peter Mulloy Reviewer David Griffiths The Public Reviews Rating: His Majesties Ship Pinafore set sail from the Chichester Festival Theatre with the enthusiastic Carl Rosa Opera Company at the helm. An imaginative set design created instant atmosphere and the audience were soon transported back to 1775 to observe the tale of [...]

Writer: Aristophanes Translator: David Stuttard Composer: Toby Park Director: Mitch Mitchelson Reviewer: Dave Cunningham The Public Reviews Rating: Fed up of their partners being absent and the deprivations caused by an on-going war the women of Athens; led by Lucy (Sarah Stanley), ban sex until the men agree to negotiate peace. Joseph Heller’s masterpiece ‘ Catch – 22’ [...]

Writer: Anton Chekhov Adaptor: Andrew Upton Director: Tamas Ascher Reviewer: David Kary The Public Reviews Rating: As a theatre lover, this was one of those nights that one just wanted time to stand still. This is as good as it gets! Hungary’s Tamas Ascher, one of the world’s best directors, directing one of the most outstanding local casts [...]

Writer: Sheila Duncan Director: Michael Allen Reviewer: David Kary The Public Reviews Rating: Many of us have dreams of living a life less ordinary with very varied results. In Sheila Duncan’s one woman play ‘A Solitary Choice’, the Seymour’s final BITE production of the year, Tamara Lee plays thirties something woman Ruth who feels deep inside that she’s [...]

Writer: Tony McNamara Director: Peter Evans Reviewer: David Kary The Public Reviews Rating: In ‘The Grenade’, political lobbyist Busby McTavish (Gary McDonald) is having a regular day at home with his family, his second wife Sally McTavish (Belinda Bromilow), their new baby, and Lola (Eloise Mignon), his precocious teenage daughter from his first marriage, when he makes a [...]

Writer: Gerald Moon Director: Leanne Caton Reviewer: David Kary The Public Reviews Rating: British playwright Gerald Moon’s 1984 play ‘Corpse’ is one of the finest plays of the comedy thriller genre. ‘Corpse’, set in London in 1936, charts the story of two rivaling twin brothers, Evelyn and Rupert Farrant. Evelyn, a struggling actor who engages the services of [...]