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Music: Tim Prottey-Jones Book: Robert Gould/Sarah Henley Direction: Sarah Henley Reviewer: Lucy Thackray The Public Reviews Rating: After the Turn first hits you with its original plot. Michael (Liam Doyle) is a talented young musician on the brink of making it big with his band when his single mother Amanda (Ashleigh Gray) is killed in an accident. Michael shuts down [...]

Writer: Philip Ridley Director : Edward Dick Reviewer : Jonathan Grant The Public Reviews Rating: The Pitchfork Disney is widely recognized as the first piece of “in yer face” theatre. That the play can still shock, some 21 years after it burst on to the London stage and during which time reality has caught up with and in [...]

Writer: Federico Garcia Lorca (new version by Emily Mann) Director: Bijan Sheibani Reviewer: Catherine Love The Public Reviews Rating: Iran, the backdrop for director Bijan Sheibani’s new version of Lorca’s classic play, is in many senses a natural relocation for this examination of tyranny, oppression and a society where ‘to be born a woman is the worst punishment’. [...]

Writer: Agatha Christie Director: Joe Harmston Reviewer: Sheila Cornelius The Public Reviews Rating: The ornate three-tier Richmond Theatre is an excellent venue for Agatha Christies’ ‘Murder on the Nile’, first staged in 1944. Echoing a more leisurely era, that of the 1930s, a gin advert projected onto velvet curtains sets the scene: passengers aboard the paddle-steamer Lotus will [...]

Writer: Rick Limentani Composer: Iván Capillas Director: Rick Limentani Reviewer: Deborah Klayman The Public Reviews Rating: Boasting an elaborate and superbly designed set juxtaposing two clashing cultures, Freedom is set in the dual worlds of modern day Tajikistan and England. A young man, Fariad (Indranyl Singharay), learns that his father has told an audacious lie to try [...]

Theatre often has its finger firmly on the pulse of modern society – sometimes, such as in the case of the Tricycle Theatre’s rapid response to the summer riots, even more so than those in power. This week’s top picks recognise theatre’s power to respond to and reflect our world with a selection of plays [...]

Writer: Alexander Wright Director: Dominic Allen Reviewer: Marina Spark The Public Reviews Rating: Entering into a world created by Belt Up Theatre is a journey that should be experienced by all. On this occasion the audience is pulled into a Victorian style sitting room and asked to make themselves comfortable on one of the many sofas and armchairs [...]

Reviewer : Jonathan Grant The Public Reviews Rating: By popular demand Steven Webb, accompanied by some wonderfully talented friends, returned to the Landor Theatre to perform his “A Spotlight On..” evening , first aired ten days earlier. The intimate venue was packed with Webb’s friends and colleagues lending a genuinely relaxed air to an evening of songs that [...]