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Created by Coney, Contact and CYAC Directors: Dan Canham/Tassos Stevens Reviewer: Jo Beggs The Public Reviews Rating: Are you afraid of the dark? Are you afraid of heights? Just two of the questions we’re asked as we arrive at Contact for The Adventure Principle. There’s an air of anticipation as a small group of participants are led through [...]

Devised by Forced Entertainment Text, Images & Direction: Tim Etchells Reviewer: Peter Jacobs The Public Reviews Rating: Forced Entertainment offer a wide variety of different theatrical and performance experiences, often delighting in stripping down or deconstructing narrative and structure to see what new stories emerge. Void Story finds the company in unusually narrative and structured mode. The show [...]

Choreographer/Artistic Director: Sonia Sabri Musical Director: Sarvar Sabri Reviewer: Peter Jacobs The Public Reviews Rating: Sonia Sabri created her pioneering dance company in 2002 to present the North Indian classical dance of kathak in a fresh way, combining it with other sympathetic influences and contemporary styles without diluting the integrity and purity of kathak itself. Now, highly regarded [...]

Writer: William Shakespeare Director: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mrs Helena Hart), Romeo and Juliet (Amy Wilan), Much Ado About Nothing (Miss Colette Marchington), Macbeth (Miss L Cordingley) Reviewer: Laura Maley The Public Reviews Rating: In its 11th year, the nationwide Shakespeare Schools Festival goes from strength to strength involving 600 schools performing in 78 theatres from Aberdeen to [...]

Director: Alexander Scott Reviewer: Iain Sykes The Public Reviews Rating: Operation Greenfield, Little Bulb Theatre’s hit show from last year’s Edinburgh Fringe is enjoying a well deserved national tour. This energy packed tour-de-force of physical theatre, wit and song, stars a cast of five (four humans, all graduates from the University of Kent, and a lifesize cardboard Elvis [...]

Writer: Don Evans Director: Dawn Walton Designer: Libby Watson Reviewed by Dave Cunningham The Public Reviews Rating: ‘One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show’ features the classic comedy set-up of a prosperous couple whose comfy lifestyle is disrupted by the choices of their offspring. But there is a twist: Myra and Felix Harrison (Jocelyn Jee Esien and Isaac [...]

Writer: William Shakespeare Director: Rich Rusk Reviewer: Iain Sykes The Public Reviews Rating: Night Light Theatre’s vision of Verona is, to be frank, a weird one. It’s a place inhabited not only by Montagues and Capulets but also by a series of puppet characters, each one intricately made and superbly brought to life but which wouldn’t look out [...]

Writer: Avaes Mohammed & Sabrina Mahfouz Director: Benji Reid Reviewer: Laura Maley The Public Reviews Rating: Crystal Kisses presents the stories of three unconnected young people. It is by turns shocking, challenging, brave and bold, even more so when you consider the stories of sexual exploitation are based on real life – they’re told with empathy and insight. [...]