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Writer: Louise Roche Director: Jack Randle Reviewer: Ian Cain The Public Reviews Rating: Imagine the scenario: you’re young, at school, and enjoying the best days of your life, and sharing all those important ‘firsts’ with the four best friends you could ever hope to have. Then, at sixteen, you fall pregnant and become a single mother to Candi-Rose [...]

She shot to fame as one of the original cast of super-soap ‘EastEnders’ and has since starred in several top-rated television series. Now, Gillian Taylforth is treading the boards in a girlie laugh-out-loud musical comedy. She tells STEVE BURBRIDGE all about it. As Kathy Mitchell in ‘EastEnders’, she was a chirpy cockney sparrow who faced [...]

Writer/Director: Alan Ayckbourn Reviewer: Ian Cain The Public Reviews Rating: Alan Ayckbourn has written more than 74 plays, which have been translated into 35 languages and performed on stage and television throughout the world and won countless awards. They include such well-known pieces as ‘Relatively Speaking’, ‘How The Other Half Loves’, ‘Absurd Person Singular’ and ‘A Chorus Of [...]

With her cut-glass accent, impressive list of credits and ‘English rose’ qualities, Liza Goddard is showbiz royalty. Ahead of arriving in the North East to headline the cast of ‘Communicating Doors’, she took time out to chat to STEVE BURBRIDGE. ‘I’ve never played at Durham,’ says Liza Goddard, excitedly. ‘I’ve played at Newcastle Theatre Royal [...]

As Bertolt Brecht once said, ‘from the first it has been the theatre’s business to entertain’; the best examples of theatrical entertainment have the power to transport us away from our lives for a few hours and into a remote fantasy world. In the hard times we are currently facing, the prospect of an escape [...]

Writer & Director: Simon Stallworthy Musical Director: Simon Hanson & James McCutcheon Reviewer: Ian Cain The Public Reviews Rating: It seems as though the North East is leading the way in terms of spectacular seasonal entertainment – with ‘White Christmas’ wowing audiences and critics alike at the Sunderland Empire, ‘Puss In Boots’ pleasing the crowds at the Customs [...]

Based on the books by: James Herriot Adaptor/Director: Simon Stallworthy Reviewer: Ian Cain The Public Reviews Rating: The tender and heart-warming tales, chronicling the adventures of a vet working in the North Yorkshire Moors became a classic television series that ran for twelve years when the BBC based ‘All Creatures Great & Small’ on the first two novels [...]

Writer: John Buchan Adaptor: Patrick Barlow Director: Maria Aitken Reviewer: Steve Burbridge The Public Reviews Rating: First published in 1915, John Buchan’s classic novel The 39 Steps has been filmed three times for the silver screen. It is also now a stage show that has wowed the West End and Broadway and continues to play in many major [...]