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Writer: Pam Gems Director: Elizabeth Newman Reviewer: Dave Cunningham The Public Reviews Rating: On a rain soaked street in Belleville Edith Gassion (Caroline Faber), a street singer, catches the eye of nightclub owner Louis Leplee (Danny Cunningham). In reference to her slight frame he renames her Little Sparrow – ‘ Piaf’. Pam Gems’s play is a warts and [...]

Reviewer: Luke Walker The Public Reviews Rating: Presented with a banner of bullet points near the beginning, Greg Davies’ stand up show has much to get through in the time we have with him. As he declares “Once a teacher – always a teacher”. Davies’ intriguingly entitled show, called The Back of My Mum’s Head, sells out [...]

Writer: Oskar Brown Director: Geoffrey Hyland Reviewer: Joanna Trainor The Public Reviews Rating:   “…an actor has to bare his soul.” Oskar Brown’s frank and brutally honest Between, certainly puts its characters’ souls on show, and actors Brown and Nicholas Campbell definitely bare more than just their inner most feelings. Told through three key relationships in his [...]

Music: Richard Wagner Director: Antony McDonald Reviewer: Jacqui Onions The Public Reviews Rating: Lohengrin forms part of the Welsh National Opera’s Wagner Dream season and the WNO Orchestra certainly create a dreamlike state with Wagner’s beautiful music washing over the audience as it is played to perfection. It is a shame, therefore, that the plot does not live [...]

Writer: Bekah Brunstetter Director: Max Pappenheim Reviewer: Stephen Bates The Public Reviews Rating: In the near future, a New York High School is preparing for the admission of two new students. Both are androids who have been set the mission to integrate fully with the other students and watching the events unfold is an ever-present reality television crew. [...]

Writer and director: Jazz Martinez-Gamboa Reviewer: Harry Stern The Public Reviews Rating: The tragedy of Shakespeare’s juvenile star-crossed lovers has inspired countless further examinations of the quintessentially perplexing state of humanity that is encompassed by the word love. Some are utterly brilliant, some less so. Sadly, this offering sits at the extreme end of the latter category. The [...]

Director: Teresa Ludovico Choreographer: Yann Seabra Reviewer: Rosie Revell The Public Reviews Rating: Bob and Joan answer their door one cold, rainy evening to a boy, a boy who claims he was once a rat! Just in time to get the half term holidays off to a magical start, City Varieties invites its audiences to sit back [...]

Writer: Joe Orton Director: Jess Barrett Reviewer: Joanna Trainor The Public Reviews Rating:   Psychological warfare can make for a captivating storyline and Joe Orton’s twisted look at working class life is no exception; though a young theatre company, 3:1 definitely do the piece justice. Donegal born hit man Michael (Luke Morphew-Hedges) and former prostitute turned housewife Joyce’s [...]