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Writer: Sheridan Morley Director: Thom Southerland Reviewer: JohnnyFox The Public Reviews Rating: ‘Noel and Gertie’ is a confection wherein the music, lyrics and play extracts of Noel Coward are used to illustrate the close friendship between the vastly talented author and his intermittent co-star but lifelong friend Gertrude Lawrence. In their stage heyday, they were as photographed, gossiped [...]

Writer: Joe Orton Director: Richard Cottrell Reviewer: David Kary The Public Reviews Rating: The late British playwright Joe Orton had a particularly cynical outlook on life. Orton’s approach was to turn his cynicism into clever, outrageous and often hilarious black farce. With his 1966 play LOOT Orton creates a world peopled with characters doing everything they can to [...]

Director: Harmonic Associates: Cobweb Collective, Birmingham Jazz Reviewer: Tabitha McGrath The Public Reviews Rating: Despite only being in its second year, the reputation of the Harmonic Jazz Festival far outweighs its level of experience. Some of the many highlights of the weekend included Mike Hurley’s Tasting Notes, an improvisatory set based around the theme of taste, and a [...]

Reviewer: Laura Stimpson The Public Reviews Rating: ‘Sentimentalists’ promised the audience a night full of songs of melancholia, irony and humour in ‘An Evening of Mild and Bitter’ in this two hour programme of their own work. ‘Sentimentalists’ are a northern soul group made up of Philip Fowler, the lead singer, Graham Young on guitar, pianist Daniel Bath, [...]

Writer: Stephen Adly Guirgis Director: Zoe Thomas Webb Reviewer: Deborah Klayman The Public Reviews Rating: Presented by the The Bridewell Theatre’s resident company, SEDOS, this new version of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ 2004 play The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is incisive, hilarious and deeply moving. Set in a courtroom in purgatory, Judas’ eternal damnation is challenged by [...]

Writer and designer: Mason Foo Director: Bethany Sheldon and Kathryn Lowe Reviewer Sara Jackson The Public Reviews Rating: ‘Memoirs of a Biscuit Tin’ brings Derby based physical theatre company, Mason Foo to Harrogate Theatre for the first time, following a national debut at the Edinburgh fringe in 2010. Devised in partnership with dementia UK ‘Memoirs of a Biscuit [...]