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Writers: Dwight Taylor&Allan Scott screenplay for RKO Music&Lyrics: Irving Berlin Director: Matthew White Choreographer: Bill Deamer Musical Director: Dan Jackson Reviewer: Maggie Constable The Public Reviews Rating: Fred and Ginger’s greatest Hollywood comedic dance extravaganza, ‘Top Hat’, is making its world premiere in Milton Keynes. The musical has been brought to the theatre 76 years after its RKO [...]

Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: Laced with dark humour, unflinching brutality and a honesty that is so rare to find in a performer all mix together to provide an hour of theatre that is not only deeply unnerving but also beautifully serene. There is a poeticism that lies in the writing that is not only haunting [...]

Writer: Stephen Berkoff Director: Andy Newman Reviewer: Val Baskott The Public Reviews Rating: Berkoff has made the Aeschylus tragedy more accessible and more sadistic in his re-telling of Agamemnon’s story. The underlying message is anti-war, past and future, the weapons of Troy are twenty-first century so bitterly relevant in our present. Reprising the origin of the curse [...]

Composer: Mozart New version by: Robin Norton-Hale Director: Robin Norton-Hale Reviewer: Ian Foster The Public Reviews Rating: After the Olivier Award winning success of La Bohème and spearheading a whole new trend in fringe opera, OperaUpClose have collaborated with Soho Theatre for this new production of Mozart’s classic, Don Giovanni, in a new version (and English translation) by [...]

Adaptation: Stella Duffy Reviewer: Alice Longhurst The Public Reviews Rating: Euripides’ dark tale of infanticide, murder and revenge, “Medea”, is the most chilling of tragedies, and one which demands a suitably evil lead. All credit must thus go to Nadira Janikova, whose skillful portrait of an enraged, wronged woman is the only fixture holding this unseaworthy vessel of [...]

Writer: Richard Fredman Director: Patrick Morris Reviewer: Carmel Doohan The Public Reviews Rating: With much swapping of roles, Menagerie theatre company conjures up a whirl of dust, check points and olive trees from almost nothing . With only breeze blocks for a set, this piece is inventive and clever, offering no easy answers to the ongoing struggles between [...]

Reviewer: Brock Leigh The Public Reviews Rating: You may know Michael Winslow as the noise-making cop from the Police Academy films, but since then he has been filling his time with stand-up…and with noises, lots of noises. Winslow uses his skills to create a show which is fairly strange and very entertaining. Winslow’s energetic performance is relaxed and [...]

Writer: Roald Dahl Reviewer: Deborah Klayman The Public Reviews Rating: Presented by two of the Roald Dahl Museum’s storytellers, this show promised a great deal. Performed with bundles of energy, Clem and Matt lead the audience through a few of the stories from the well-loved book: we meet Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, and the Three Little Pigs, with [...]