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Writer: Gareth Armstrong Director: Guy Masterson Reviewer: Dave Cunningham The Public Reviews Rating: The character of Shylock dominates Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’. Shylock’s motivation and backstory are spelt out in a relatively limited number of evocative and powerful speeches. Shakespeare is such a good storyteller that you wonder if there is sufficient material left to fill out [...]

Writer: Gareth Armstrong Director: Gareth Armstong Reviewer: Val Baskott The Public Reviews Rating: Gareth Armstrong’s play is a revisionist take on the role of Shakespeare’s Shylock, prompted by Armstong’s experience of feeling a sense of isolation and difference when performing the role. He elevates the minor character Tubal, Shakespeare’s only other Jewish character (eight lines), as our centre [...]

Writer: Tim Withnall Director: Guy Masterson Reviewer: Jo Beggs The Public Reviews Rating: Bob Golding takes on Eric Morecambe, the man, the life and the comedy with the same energy and charm of the man himself. A tall order – with ‘a big dark room’ full of fans – he could so easily disappoint, but this performance, which [...]

Writer:Tim Whitnall Director:Guy Masterton Reviewer: James Higgins The Public Reviews Rating: John Eric Bartholomew was born in the seaside town of Morecambe, Lancashire on a chilly spring day in 1926. His solid working class upbringing giving little hint of the fame and affection that he would experience over the years until his untimely death in 1984 aged just [...]

Writer: Ansuya Nathan Director: Guy Masterson Reviewer: Val Baskott The Public Reviews Rating: My expectations of this show were very mixed: female Elvis impersonator meets Bollywood take on immigration angst? No worries mate! No worries indeed. The King and his music permeate the whole show, drawing the audience through the gamut of love, loss and survival experienced by [...]

Writer: Rebecca Vaughan Director: Guy Masterson Reviewer: Val Baskott The Public Reviews Rating: Following her success with Austen’s Women in 2009, writer/performer Rebecca Vaughan has turned her attention to the iconic figure of Queen Elizabeth the First. In this solo performance she is endeavouring to ‘reveal the woman behind the queen’ using only Elizabeth’s words. The opening introduces [...]

Writer: Tim Whitnall Director: Guy Masterson Reviewer: Tim Jones The Public Reviews Rating: As this genial one-man show whistles happily into town, “the man what brought us sunshine” is able to bring a little sunshine to us once more. A biographic telling of the life of one half of the double act Morecambe and Wise, reveals a wide-eyed [...]