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Artistic Director: Robert Pacitti Reviewer: Alice Longhurst The Public Reviews Rating: On a cloudy Saturday at the end of July a big friendly crowd of East Anglians gathered in a field. We were there to feast and to be filmed, sharing and nibbling goodies created from the On Landguard Point Cookbook, an online collection of recipes contributed by [...]

Inspired by three different real life stories, Snap. Catch. Slam is a series of short plays by award-winning writer Emma Jowett that is making the trip up to the Edinburgh Fringe this summer. Jowett, who has previously co-written two plays for theatre company Analogue, takes some time out of the busy Edinburgh preparations to chat [...]

Writer: William Shakespeare Music: Edward Day & Owen Morgan Lyrics: Owen Morgan Director: Joanna Carrick Reviewer: Paul Couch The Public Reviews Rating: When William Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night at the dawn of the 17th Century, it’s unlikely that he would have envisioned it staged on a mocked-up beach in the middle of a forest with the actors [...]

Producer: Al Bourne Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: Having an album of your own seems to be the next step for most leading performers in musicals, and Craig Price who has just completed a stint as the Narrator in Bill Kenwright’s touring production of Blood Brothers is the latest to join the ever increasing album alumni. [...]

Director: Tim McArthur Reviewer: Johnny Fox The Public Reviews Rating: Lorenz Hart’s death aged 48 deprived Richard Rodgers of what many musical theatre aficionadoes think was his finest collaborating lyricist. In their twenty year partnership, they created 26 musicals based on a solid belief in the integration of libretto, lyrics and music . This makes it harder to [...]

Reviewer: Sara Jackson The Public Reviews Rating: The Ukulele project is made up of three very talented 18-year-old musicians, Marcus, Oli and Pete. They are touring the UK after a sell out run at the Edinburgh festival in 2010. I was intrigued to see what young people could do with the Ukulele, for me it still conjures visions [...]

Reviewer: Rosie Revell The Public Reviews Rating: “There are a lot more bad books than there are good” and in the bad there is seemingly, comedy gold. Robin Ince, award winning comedian and self confessed bad book addict led the Harrogate audience on a whistlestop tour of so bad they’re good books found in charity shops, jumble sales [...]

Writer: Laurence Lynch Director: Nathan Osgood Reviewer: Gareth Ellis The Public Reviews Rating: Burnt Oak is a play about a corner of London where people live their lives in anonymity, struggling against the tide of events which happen to them through life. The play follows events in the life of Nobby, a trainee decorator, and his girlfriend, Susan; [...]