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Writer: Jim Cartwright Director: Greg Hersov Reviewer: Laura Maley The Public Reviews Rating: Justin Moorhouse and Victoria Elliott play the landlord and landlady of a northern pub in Jim Cartwright’s play Two at the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester. Over the course of one evening they embody the characters of 12 of their pub regulars from a forgotten [...]

Love, in all its many varieties, is a form of timeless theatrical inspiration that never strays far from our stages. From bohemian love triangles to tender romances to incestuous liaisons, this week’s top picks have everything you could wish for in the passion department. Picks by Catherine Love   1) CONSTELLATIONS – ROYAL COURT THEATRE, [...]

Writer: Jim Cartwright Director: Hannah Chissick Reviewer: Rosie Wheat The Public Reviews Rating: In 1992, the critically acclaimed Jim Cartwright wrote The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, a musical play that combines the heart-warming and the tragic simultaneously. The play is firmly set in the eighties, and depicts a little slice of every-day hell in life [...]

Writer: Jim Cartwright Director: Hannah Chissick Reviewer: Mary Tapper The Public Reviews Rating: This big-hearted production from the excellent Hull Truck Theatre Company provides an absorbing evening of a high professional standard. It tells the story of a dysfunctional household with Little Voice (LV) living with her widowed mother Mari. Mari is desperate for a man to have [...]

Writer: Jim Cartwright Director: Shereen Perera & Amy Ramsden Reviewer: Matthew Nichols The Public Reviews Rating: Ah, student theatre. The unmistakeable whiff of productions flung together with very low budgets, and lots of love and care. Sometimes, it’s terrible. Overly analytical and supposedly radical attempts at forcing concepts on a text that neither need nor demand it. Of [...]