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Told by Mike Maran (based on the writings of Juan Ramon Jimenez) Music: Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco Performer: Craig Ogden Puppeteer: Nino Namitcheishvili Director: Levan Tsuladze Reviewer: Michael Gray The Public Reviews Rating: Produced by the same team which brought us Captain Corelli in 2011, this is a work on a much smaller scale, but in its way [...]

Adaptor and performer: Rebecca Vaughan Director : Guy Masterson Reviewer: Michael Gray The Public Reviews Rating: M R James has appeared on this stage more than once, at least in impersonation. Now, in a similar setting – leather armchair, candelabra – it’s the turn of the sadly neglected female exponents of the ghost story. Female Gothic is an [...]

Producer: Michael Taylor Reviewer: Kelly McGibney The Public Reviews Rating: ‘All tease, no sleaze’ is the motto behind Michael Taylors’s ‘An Evening of Burlesque’ and the ladies kept to their promise. Comprising mostly of women (bar the two male performers) this throwback to a sexier and somehow more innocent era titillated the eager audience all night. The evening [...]

Writer: Stewart Lee Director: Stewart Lee Reviewer: Kelly McGibney The Public Reviews Rating:   Stewart Lee has had a stand up career which has spanned twenty five years. Due to regular television appearances in the last five or so years he has reached a status that only a handful of working comics can claim: he has become [...]

Writer: Alex Horne Director: Alex Horne Reviewer: Kelly McGibney The Public Reviews Rating: In Seven Years in the Bathroom Alex Horne presents a statistics-filled show about how long we as average humans spend on everyday activities during our lifetime. As the show’s title suggests the average person (or specifically male) spends a total of seven hours in the [...]

Writer: Jane Austen Adapters: Roger Parsley and Andy Graham Director: Helen Tennison Reviewer: Glen Pearce The Public Reviews Rating: The course of true love never runs smooth. For Jane Austen’s Sense And Sensibility that means two sisters, two suitors and two stumbling blocks to romantic happiness. With both the big and small screen in love with Austen and [...]