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Writers: Richard Marsh and Katie Bonna Director: Pia Furtado Reviewer: Flip Miller The Public Reviews Rating: From the minute Richard Marsh and Katie Bonna walk on stage you were immediately pulled into their lives and their on / off relationship. This one act play is the poetry equivalent of a Marian Keyes novel. You, the audience are outsiders [...]

Writer: William Shakespeare Director: Lynn Whitehead Reviewer: Glen Pearce The Public Reviews Rating: Romeo & Juliet must hold the record for the most performed of all Shakespeare’s plays. This tragic love story has seen countless interpretations, adaptations and treatments over the years. The tale of two warring families and two conflicting generations has wide appeal and it’s the [...]

Writer: Daniel O’Brien Music and Lyrics: Rebbeca Applin Director: Abigail Anderson Reviewer: Glen Pearce The Public Reviews Rating: In the country’s only surviving working Georgian playhouse, panto is always something of traditional affair. No reality TV stars here, instead a good ‘old-fashioned’ family outing. This year, though, the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds seems to rattle that [...]

Writers and performers: Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding Reviewer: Flip Miller The Public Reviews Rating:   Everybody has a one or two friends who are ever so slightly bonkers. They love to spend time with them but after a couple of hours you are ready to go home. Tonight Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding were those friends. Inspector [...]

Writer: Mervyn Peake Adaptor: John Constable Director: Amy Wyllie Reviewer: Flip Miller The Public Reviews Rating: Rehearsed in just two weeks you would expect some rough around the edges performances and dubious stage direction. However the cast, under the direction of Amy Wyllie, bring this rather surreal second book in Mervyn Peake’s trilogy to life. The story is [...]

Music and Lyrics: David Yazbek Director: Nigel Turner Musical Director: Mark Jefferson Reviewer: Flip Miller The Public Reviews Rating:   It would appear that the gyms around Bury St Edmunds have been very busy this year getting a certain six gentlemen into shape for this show. The hard work, and money have paid off. Most of us are [...]

Book by: James Goldman Music and Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim Director: Louise Travis Musical Director: Richard Healey Reviewer: Flip Miller The Public Reviews Rating:   What an amazing show for Bury St Edmunds Operatic and Amateur Dramatic Society to put on. With the storyline flitting between the present day and the past there is plenty of scope for young [...]

Composer: Gioachino Antonio Rossini Revival Director: James Meek Musical Director: Inga Davis – Rutter Reviewer: Flip Miller The Public Reviews Rating:   This is Rossini’s opera but not as we know it. Yes, the action is still set in Seville how else would we get the Barber of Seville?) but it is set in 1930s Seville. The Barber [...]