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Switch: Choreographed by Richard Wherlock What It Is: Choreographed by Philip Taylor Pave Up Paradise: Choreographed by Lost Dog Melt: Choreographed by Sharon Watson Reviewer: Dave Cunningham The Public Reviews Rating: ‘Reflected’, the new work by the Phoenix Dance Theatre, comprises four short pieces. It opens with the weakest so be assured that it does get much better. [...]

Writer: Leo Tolstoy Adapted for the stage by: Helen Edmundson Director: Max Webster Reviewer: Ian Foster The Public Reviews Rating: This production of Anna Karenina at the Arcola Theatre is a revival of one from 1992 by Shared Experience, presented here by The Piano Removal Company, a new company formed out of a recently graduating group from the [...]

Director: Paul Hunter Reviewer: David Noble The Public Reviews Rating: And The Horse You Rode In On is a chaotic mix of stories based on the premise of ‘enlightenment by demonstration’. The multi-layered narrative took inspiration from a plethora of sources, from Hitchcock’s Sabotage to Gunter Grass’s novel Local Anaesthetic. The Horse You Rode In On was an [...]

Music/Lyrics: Michael Bruce Produced by: Speckulation Entertainment Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: In 2007 Speckulation Entertainment ran a competition in conjunction with The Stage newspaper to find the best new British musical theatre composer. The task was to write a Christmas themed musical theatre song to appear in Speckulation’s annual Christmas in New York concert. Needless [...]

This week I got a very nice phone call; the kind that I spend a lot of time waiting for. It was nice because it was a job offer and especially nice because it was a job I really wanted. Over the past, puppy poop (read last week’s entry) filled week, I waited for the [...]

Composer and Orchestrator: Michel Legrand Writer/Director: Emma Rice Reviewer: Jemma Bicknell The Public Reviews Rating: Girl and boy fall in love, boy has to leave, girl is heartbroken (and pregnant) so goes the classic 1950s love story set in rainy Cherbourg. When, after watching The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, I saw that the set and costume designer was Lez [...]

Writer: Oscar Wilde Dramaturg: Carl Miller Director: Emily Gray Reviewer: Tim Jones The Public Reviews Rating: It’s the twelfth birthday of the Infanta (that’s a Spanish princess) and for today only she’s allowed to play with other children. We are invited to a celebration and all number of wondrous acts are assembled to play before the great princess. [...]

Writer: Edward Albee Music: Jon Nicholls Director: Erica Whyman Reviewer: Audrey Pointer The Public Reviews Rating: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a four-hander, set on a New England college campus. It was Edward Albee’s first full-length play, and when it opened on Broadway in 1962 it was an instant success, defining his future career as a playwright. [...]