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Writer: Peter Roberts Music: Tony Coffey Directors: Tony Coffey and Pete Meakin Reviewer: Selwyn Knight The Public Reviews Rating: The theatre is in darkness and a platoon of menacing men in camouflage appear on the aisles, ostensibly cleansing the theatre of undesirables and other problems. They are the ‘Citizens’ Militia’, an unlikely consequence of the Big Society in [...]

Writer: Philip Meeks Producer/Director: Bruce James Reviewer: Ian Cain The Public Reviews Rating: The publicity material promises that ‘I Met A Man Who Wasn’t There’ will be ‘a chilling contemporary supernatural thriller in which two compelling characters engage in a battle of wits’. The synopsis sounded intriguing: Edgar Ryme was once a famous psychic with an ardent flock [...]

Writer: Alan Kent Director: John Hoggarth Reviewer: Audrey Pointer The Public Reviews Rating: New Cornish company Bish Bash Bosh Productions have got together with Whitby based production company Iron Shoes to present this new play, which is touring the country throughout the Summer. Funded by bodies with an interest in developing Cornish tourism, a primary purpose of the [...]

Writer: Glyn Maxwell Music: Luke Bedford Director: John Fulljames Reviewer: Markee Rambo-Hood The Public Reviews Rating: Seven Angels is an opera detailing the account of seven fallen angels who revision the growth and demise of a garden now turned into desert lands. This modern day retelling of Milton’s Paradise Lost serves as a parable for the current [...]

Writer: John Gay Director: Lucy Bailey Reviewer: Ian Foster The Public Reviews Rating: The Beggar’s Opera written by John Gay in 1728 was the first example of the ballad opera, perhaps the forerunner to today’s jukebox musicals in folding in pre-existing tunes to a satirical narrative that poked fun at the ever-popular Italian operas that were all the [...]

Writer: R. A. Dick Adaptor/Director: Patric Kearns Reviewer: Jacqui Onions The Public Reviews Rating: A Talking Scarlet production, The Ghost and Mrs Muir tells the tale of a young widow that moves into a cottage that once belonged to captain of the seas, Daniel Gregg. Captain Gregg’s ghost is still very much in residence and has seen off [...]

Writer: William F. Brown Music & Lyrics: Charlie Smalls Director: Josette Bushell-Mingo Reviewer: Laura Stimpson The Public Reviews Rating: The Wiz, an African-American, soul inspired musical adapted from the classic tale the Wizard of Oz by Frank L Brown certainly made its mark on Broadway in the 1970’s when it won seven Tony Awards, and was later made [...]

Now three thousand years old, the tragic tale of Medea has been reincarnated in a modern adaptation by writer Stella Duffy, drawing chilling parallels with current political questions about immigration and national security. Jason returns home from war triumphant, bringing with him with Medea, a princess of the nation he has conquered, and the two [...]