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Making his debut performance at Leicester’s newest theatre venue – County-born Martin Lawrence will be bringing his artistic flare to Curve’s stage with Richard Alston’s Dance Company productions this month. Martin speaks to Jemma Crowston Retired dancer and now the companies Rehearsal Director, Lawrence is excited about seeing Overdrive, Shuffle it Right and To Dance [...]

Writer: Oscar Wilde Director: Jamie Lloyd Reviewer: David Noble The Public Reviews Rating: Salome is not for the faint hearted. Indeed, Jamie Lloyd’s interpretation of Oscar Wilde’s account of the death of John the Baptist, here named Iokanaan, never shies away from the brutality and immorality of the time. Blood is shed at regular intervals, and the character [...]

Writer: Alexander Kelly Director: Alexander Kelly and Rachel Walton Reviewer: Rebecca Taylor The Public Reviews Rating: It’s an impressive thing when a show that tells the story of a how a previous show came about is in its 10th year of touring. And I can see why. The theme of the show, getting back in touch with old [...]

Along their 10th anniversary tour, Third Angel will be stopping at Leicester’s Curve to bring us Class of 76’. The Public Reviews contributor, Jemma Crowston, caught up with theatre director and star of the show – Alexander Kelly. The Sheffield-based touring company Third Angel last appeared at Curve with Presumption in 2009 and now they [...]

Writer: Barrie Keeffe Director: Gbolahan Obisesan Reviewer: Angela Wilson The Public Reviews Rating: Barrie Keeffe wrote Sus in 1979 – a time of social, political and racial unrest, when the infamous “sus” laws meant anyone could be held on the flimsiest suspicion of possibly having committed a crime. So does this revival, an Eclipse Theatre and Young Vic [...]

The Public Reviews contributor Jemma Crowston caught up with Artistic Director Jon Spooner to talk to him about his funny and enigmatic show The Ethics of Progress which will see him shed light on quantum physics and teleportation in a 60-minute jargon-free performance. Unlimited Theatre returns to Leicester’s Curve this Thursday (April 22) with a [...]

Ahead of Curve’s timely political production of Sus, The Public Reviews contributor Jemma Crowston speaks to Clint Dyer about the tour. Set on Election night in 1979, Sus is a powerful and topical revival of Barrie Keeffe’s cry against institutional racism in Britain. Director, Gbolaham Obisesan’s hard-hitting production opens in Leicester on May 4 at [...]

Director/Writer: Keith Saha Reviewer: David Noble The Public Reviews Rating: It would be fair to say that Ghost Boy is an unusual piece of theatre. The story of Jamal, a young man who is haunted by the ghost of the boy he fatally stabbed two years previously, it uses cartoon sketches to present the demons of guilt which [...]