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Violin: Chloë Hanslip Piano: Igor Tchetuev Music: Beethoven, Medtner, Brahms, Stravinsky Reviewer: Nicola Harrison The Public Reviews Rating: ‘Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.’ Vanessa Mae (1978+) Leeds International Chamber Season brought another spectacular performance from two celebrated international performers, Chloë Hanslip, an established recording and concert artist and Igor Tchetuev, who [...]

 Reviewer: Paul Bannister The Public Reviews Rating: After a cold wintery day working, my wife and myself headed to Huddersfield Town Hall feeling about as Christmassy as a hot summers day. We were heading to see Kate Rusby at Christmas – my wife a fan of Kate Rusby and me ‘putting up’ with her music choice. So [...]

Writer/Music: Forbes Masson Director: Michael Fentiman Reviewer: Selwyn Knight The Public Reviews Rating: Crackers is supposed to be a grown-up Christmas show, deliberately short so that it can be a prelude to a fun evening out. Unfortunately, it is neither grown-up nor especially fun. It all started so well. The three-tiered set looked interesting and the opening song [...]

Directors: Neil Packham & Elly Goodman Reviewer: Edie R The Public Reviews Rating: Oh, oh, oh. “Wicked Christmas” has done me an unkindness, and placed me in the kind of quandary in which no reviewer deserves to find herself in less than a fortnight before Christmas. I love the Citizens Theatre, and I love everything the Citizens Community [...]

Baritone and Director: Thomas Guthrie Pianist: David Owen Norris Reviewer: Jeffrey Mayhew The Public Reviews Rating: Schubert’s brilliant and original song cycle achieved its final form in 1828 so, apart from Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte of 1816, was a very early example of the genre. The 24 songs are settings of Wilhelm Mϋller, originally for tenor but [...]

Writer: Geoffrey Chaucer Adaptor:Tom Daliyn Music: Anthony Sebastian/Annabelle Brown Director: Juliane Von Sivers Reviewer: Elizabeth Vile The Public Reviews Rating: Hospitality, merriment and drinks were in abundance throughout Tacit Theatre’s raucous production of The Canterbury Tales. On arrival the audience are clearly ordered to get drinks whenever they want (a choice of Ale, Mulled Wine, and traditional English Tap [...]

Writer: Eric Potts Director: Jonathan Wilkes/ Christian Patterson Reviewer: David Aldridge The Public Reviews Rating: You can’t fault Dick Whittington at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre for polish. Even the corpsing seems hard-earned, and Jonathan Wilkes (Dick) and Christian Patterson (Sarah the Cook) in particular seamlessy and comfortably integrate genuine amusement at each other’s antics into their banter. I was [...]

Writer: Keith Simmons and Paul Holman Director: Debbie Flitcroft Musical Director: Keith Paddington Richards Choreographer: Aaron Francis Reviewer: Glen Pearce The Public Reviews Rating: Forget us critics, for a true barometer of a productions success you should always watch the reactions of the children in the audience. At 10.15am on a chilly Wednesday morning the Marina Theatre Lowestoft [...]