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Writer: Abigail Docherty Director: Lu Kemp Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: Docherty’s tale is based on a true story of two Japanese girls Sadako and Chiziko who when just two years old the Atomic Bomb was dropped in the village of Hiroshima, ten years later during a school sports day Sadako running the 600 meters fell [...]

Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: Cloudia has been an avid cloud spotter since she was little, especially since the time she discovered belongings that had fallen from the sky belonging to the shy and hard to find Cloud Men. This tender and easy going production aimed for 4-8 years olds has a beautiful picture book feel [...]

When Jeff Achtem made his Ed Fringe debut in 2010, his shadow puppet show ‘Sticks, Stones, Broken Bones’ created quite a buzz. Critics and festival-goers alike loved the colourful puppet characters, which Achtem creates by using pieces of junk, and he went home that year with several awards, including Best Newcomer. Now the Canadian native [...]

Writer: David Greig Director: Guy Hollands Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: Sometimes plays aimed at young people severely miss the mark, they are either too preachy and leave a sickly sweet saccharine aftertaste or are so patronising that you have lost interest within the first 5 minutes, thankfully TAG Theatre Company and The Citizens Theatre, know [...]

Writer: Carl Grose & Told by an Idiot/National Theatre Wales Director: Paul Hunter Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: Based on the dark short stories of Gwyn Thomas; the youngest of 12 children who was brought up, raised and lived in the Rhondda Valley until the day he died. This production celebrates not only the man himself [...]

Writer: Lynda Radley Director: Dominic Hill Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: Things are changing in society, religion and science have began to take its toll on Robert Riley’s travelling oddity show, trying as hard as he can, Riley makes several changes to his line-up forgetting about the unwritten order of oddities, this change and desire to [...]

Choreographers: Tom Dale, Freddie Opoku-Addaie, Tamsin Fitzgerald Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: It has to be said that it is refreshing to see something on the fringe with such vitality and freshness especially coming from this large all male dance ensemble. Three pieces of dance are combined to make an full hours worth of high octane [...]

Writer/Director: David Harrower Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: We are meant to be close to our family; we are told that blood is thicker than water and that nothing could or should ever come between us…but life isn’t that easy and at times we are tested to the extremes, sometimes ripping our family apart for years [...]