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New writing isn’t just confined to the stage, playwrights are now using the skills they have honed in theatres to transfer their ideas to the big screen. As part of the Hotbed Festival a series of short films are being shown that highlight new voices. Wish 143 Writer: Tom Bidwell The Public Reviews Rating: A 15 year old is [...]

Composer: David Lang Director and Designer: Josh Armstrong Lighting Designer: Paul Sorley Film Artist: Jack Phelan Reviewer: Val Baskott The Public Reviews Rating: This David Lang double bill opened with the contemplative ‘cello work World to Come. Lang calls it ‘a meditation on hope and hopelessness, asking fundamental questions about the death and life of the soul’. [...]

Director: Robin Hardy Reviewer: Tracey Lowe The Public Reviews Rating: Over the past few years, an increasing number of sing-a-long events have popped up over the country. There are a few favourites, such as The Sound of Music, Grease and The Wizard of Oz, but The Wicker Man is not a film that obviously encourages audience participation. However, [...]

Writer/Director: Joe O’Byrne Produced by Chris Lane Reviewer: Brian Gorman The Public Reviews Rating: Ken Loach style kitchen sink realism meets Martin Scorcese’s more elevated archetypal storytelling, in this latest tale from the fictional Paradise Heights estate. Writer and actor O’Byrne (who also plays the pivotal role of enigmatic loan shark, Frank Morgan) has created a chillingly believable [...]

Director: Gary Reich, Mike Nicholls, David Hoyle Reviewer: Cathy Crabb The Public Reviews Rating: An out of season and empty caravan park on the Isle of Sheppey is the setting for the Avant-Garde Alliance’s surreal romance/desolate tragedy Uncle David. World weary and exasperated by humanity, Uncle David (David Hoyle)has made a promise to save nephew Ashley (Ashley Ryder) [...]