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Writer: Charles Dickens Adaptor: Neil Bartlett Director: Paul Hart Reviewer: Carol Evans The Public Reviews Rating: It must be a daunting prospect for a dramatist to adapt one of Charles Dickens’s mammoth works into a workable script for a two-act play, especially with all those characters, the convoluted plots and the author’s own social commentary to take into [...]

Music: Noel Gay Book: Abi Grant Script Revised: Alex Armitage Director: Caroline Leslie Reviewer: Jim Nicholson The Public Reviews Rating: ‘Fun, Fun, Fun’. Nights out don’t get much better than this years Watermill summer musical offering of the, little known, Noel Gay war time wireless based comedy ‘Radio Times’. The show was first performed in 1991 at the [...]

Writer: Ron Hutchinson Director: Mark Rosenblatt Reviewer: Jim Nicholson The Public Reviews Rating: The Watermill have certainly come up with a winner here, perhaps not quite on the scale of ‘Gone With The Wind’, but certainly a show that should pack them in during its five week run. Moonlight and Magnolias is a comic drama written by Ron [...]

Writer: Douglas Post Director: Patrick Sandford Reviewer: Jim Nicholson The Public Reviews Rating: This one man play by Douglas Post tells the tale of a ‘has been’ photographer drawn into a web of murder and mystery as a result of his fondness at snapping the passing beauties in the parks of 1957 London. A Nuffield Theatre production, directed [...]

Writer: Alan Bennett Director: Jamie Glover Reviewer: Carol Evans The Public Reviews Rating: When British spy Guy Burgess defected to Russia in the 1950s, he said that what he missed most was ‘the gossip.’ But in An Englishman Abroad, one of Alan Bennett’s two plays in the Single Spies double bill at The Watermill, it seems that wasn’t [...]

Music: Barry Manilow Lyrics: Bruce Sussman and Jack Feldman Book: Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman and Jack Feldman Director: Craig Revel Horwood Reviewer: Jim Nicholson The Public Reviews Rating: It always worries me when a show is born out of a single popular song and I remember back in 1994 sitting in the Prince of Wales Theatre longing to [...]

Writer: Denise Deegan Director: Caroline Leslie Reviewer: Jim Nicholson The Public Reviews Rating: Firstly let me give you two names for your notebook, Emerald O’Hanrahan and Rosie Jones, remember you heard it here first, these are two young performers destined for the very top. Recent revivals of Denise Deegan’s ‘Daisy Pulls It Off’ have been poorly received on [...]

Writer: Jonathan Swift Adaptor: Toby Hulse Director: Ade Morris Reviewer: Carol Evans The Public Reviews Rating: Gulliver’s Travels, a classic of English literature, is one of those books that everyone knows about but perhaps few people have actually read, except maybe to their children in an abridged version. But anyone believing that this is kiddies’ fiction, should think [...]