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Writer: Oliver Birch Director: Dan Bird Reviewer: Glen Pearce The Public Reviews Rating:   Some reviews are difficult to write, not because there isn’t anything to say about a production, but, because the fact that the element of surprise is so central to the success of the piece, that to say anything that would weaken the whole experience. [...]

Writer: Mona Mansour Director: Richard Fitch Reviewer: Glen Pearce The Public Reviews Rating: Middle Eastern political upheaval often causes ripples way beyond the national boundaries of the countries involved. It’s perhaps appropriate then, that HighTide have chosen Mona Mansour’s The Hour Of Feeling as one of a quartet of plays from New York’s Public Theatre to cross the [...]

Writers: Nancy Harris, Kenny Emson, Nicola Werenowska, Mahlon Prince, Tom Eccleshare Director: Joe Murphy Reviewer: Glen Pearce The Public Reviews Rating: What is the best year of your life? Turning 16? 18? Your 21st? These formative years as you journey from childhood to adulthood are often looked back on with rose-tinted nostalgia but at the time where they [...]

Writer: John Mcleod Dramaturg: Rob Drummer Reviewer: Glen Pearce The Public Reviews Rating: Theatre is often seen as a communal experience, although we individually have differing responses to a piece we share that collective response with fellow audience members and share in the live experience as a whole. John Mcleod’s Organs of Little Apparent Importance takes a different [...]

Writer: Laura Poliakoff Director: Steven Atkinson Reviewer: Glen Pearce The Public Reviews Rating: With an expanding ageing population and lengthening life expectancy, the subject of how we care for the elderly is a subject close to many. Of course, the experience and expectations change over time and in Laura Poliakoff’s Clockwork we jump forward 80-odd years to see [...]

Reviewer: Flip Miller   This is one of the first festivals of the season and there is not a wellie or any mud in sight. The premise of the festival is to showcase samples – hence Sampled Festival, of artistic works from up and coming artists. The organisation of the festival is timed with unusual [...]

Writer: Vickie Donoghue Director: Will Wrightson Reviewer: Glen Pearce The Public Reviews Rating: The black mud on the foreshore of the River Thames conceals many secrets. Across the centuries the mud has swallowed up the unwary, depositing their remains and belongings years later for treasure seekers. For three teenage Essex lads, the twists and turns of the mighty [...]

Writer and Performer: Mike Daisey Directed: Jean-Michele Gregory Reviewer: Paul Couch The Public Reviews Rating: We live in a mad, mad consumer society and it’s become all too easy to devour those goods without thinking of where they’ve come from or who has suffered in their manufacture. Mike Daisey’s The Agony And The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs has [...]