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Director: Alan Lane Reviewer: Sara Jackson The Public Reviews Rating: The Enough Project is made up of two plays by Northern playwrights Cathy Crab and Emma Adams and is a collaborative project developed between Theatre In The Mill, The Lowry and The Carriageworks. The project is directed by Slung Low’s Alan Lane and designed by Barney George. The [...]

Writer: Tam Hinton Director: Chris Bridgman Reviewer: Dave Cunningham The Public Reviews Rating: Using the pursuit of an object to generate suspense and conflict is a common plot device in drama. Directors like Hitchcock and Tarantino are so skilled in using the technique that their audience doesn’t feel cheated even if the nature of the object is never [...]

Writer: Alexi Kaye Campbell Director: Polly Teale Reviewer: Stephen Bates The Public Reviews Rating: It takes considerable boldness for a modern playwright to set a play in 1937, adhering to the conventions of an era from which so many classics already exist. In this context, how could a voice from the present speak louder than one from the [...]

Writer : Alex Broun Reviewer : Sarah Cassidy The Public Reviews Rating: Half a Person: My Life As Told By The Smiths is a one-man show about William, a die hard Smiths fan who embarks on a passionate love affair with the beautiful, red-lipped, black-haired Salome, while pouring out his self-obsessed sorrows to his best friend Rick. William [...]

Writer, director and performer: Amaara Raheem Reviewer: Robert Cottingham The Public Reviews Rating: This play takes its title from an old Australian shield which is currently living in the Rooms of the Enlightenment at the British Museum. Captain Cook brought it in to England in 1770, after his first encounter with indigenous Australia. It takes a while before [...]

Writer: Richard Brinsley Sheridan Director: Jessica Swale Reviewer: Ian Foster The Public Reviews Rating: Sparkling reinterpretations of 18th century comedies have become something of an annual treat from Jessica Swale’s Red Handed Theatre company and following on from the delights of the Celia Imrie-starring The Rivals and last year’s The Busy Body, it is now the turn of [...]

Writer: Aisling Foster Director: Cherry Cookson Reviewer: Karl O’Doherty The Public Reviews Rating: The story of the Russian crown jewels and the Irish underground government is one of the more interesting and fun ones to come out of the near impenetrable bleakness that generally surrounds the post 1916 years in Ireland. There are all the elements of a [...]

Writer: Robert Louis Stevenson Director/Adapter: Caroline Devlin Reviewer: Bethaney Rimmer The Public Reviews Rating: Hidden on the lower floor of Blackwell’s Bookstore in Oxford are the dark, labyrinthine nineteenth century streets of London. Technically it’s the Norrington Room, an extension of the bookshop, but with the candlelit walkways and immersive sound effects, Stevenson’s world of fantasy, horror, [...]