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Writer: Noel Coward Director :Thea Sharrock Reviewer David Griffiths The Public Reviews Rating: Alison Steadman as Madame Arcati, Hermione Norris as Ruth, Robert Bathurst as Charles and Ruthie Henshall as Elvira gave wonderful performances mixing sophisticated humour with a touch of ghostly goings on, ably supported by Jodie Taibi as Edith, the maid, and Bo Poraj and Charlotte [...]

Writer: Tennessee Williams Director: Anna Hextall Reviewer: Mary Tapper The Public Reviews Rating: An Oxford University student production at Oxford Playhouse – a theatre with a capacity of 600? Really? Could they pull it off? Would it look amateurish and clunky? Would we all sit there slightly embarrassed hoping to be put out of our misery? Well the [...]

Writer: John Donnelly Director: Danielle O’Keefe Reviewer: David Kary The Public Reviews Rating: The Devil May Care production of British playwright John Donnelly’s play ‘Songs of Grace and Redemption’ was a whirlwind ninety minutes of theatre. Donnelly’s songs take us into the complicated worlds of five young under thirty year old singles, Sarah, Steve, Nicola, John and Peter [...]

Director: Alexander Parsonage Reviewer: David Noble The Public Reviews Rating: Sweeney Todd was excellent, quite simply. This was a different adaptation to what you might expect, for it was without the singing and dancing (and minus Johnny Depp); yet it was a black comedy of fantastic proportions. Full of wit and whimsy, Sweeney Todd was a treat. Centred [...]

Writer: Bryony Lavery Music: Underworld Director: Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett Reviewer: Carol Evans The Public Reviews Rating: For someone who’s not a great fan of boxing, I never thought I would be seeing – and enjoying – two plays on that very subject in the space of four months. Sucker Punch at London’s Royal Court was [...]

Writer: Tudor Gates Director: Andrew Lynford Reviewer: Bill Avenell The Public Reviews Rating: A drive down to Worthing through the slightly eerie mists of an Autumn evening in order to write a review put me in the right frame of mind for this sinister double hander about the murder of a ‘critic’. Areasonable sized audience at the friendly [...]

Writer: Tim Crouch Director: Karl James & A Smith Reviewer: Ian Winterton The Public Reviews Rating: “I have the choice to continue. I have the choice to stop.” As they say on the blogs and forums: SPOILER ALERT. If you’re planning on seeing The Author, my advice is to make the choice to stop reading now and come [...]

Director: Tim Etchells Reviewer: Peter Jacobs The Public Reviews Rating: Forced Entertainment are a group of six artists who began working together in 1984. Since then, they have created a wide variety of theatrical projects experimenting with different forms of theatre and performance, often exploring the boundaries of both. The Thrill of It All is their latest show. [...]