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Written by Oscar Wilde Directors: Lucinda Dawkins & Adam Scott Taylor Reviewer: Ali Lantukh The Public Reviews Rating: Rather fittingly for a story revolving around the construct and beauty of youth, this version of Dorian Gray is produced and acted by an impossibly young-looking University of Oxford student company: Cut-Out Star Productions. Wilde’s only novel has been adapted [...]

The course of true love, as the inherited wisdom of Shakespeare tells us, never did run smooth. This is perhaps never more so than in the theatre, where its course is usually dotted with a good few potholes and more often than not winds up in a dead end. This week, therefore, our top picks [...]

Writer: Tom Stoppard Director: Philip Wilson Reviewer: Jude Evans The Public Reviews Rating: It appears a wise move by the REP to stage Stoppard’s Travesties in repertory with The Importance of Being Earnest. With Stoppard’s play manipulating Earnest what we see is a striking contrast between the two playwrights. The tight and fiercely structured nature of Wilde shifts [...]

Writer: Oscar Wilde Translation + adaptation: Charles Osborne Director: Mark Urquhart Reviewer: Maggie Constable The Public Reviews Rating: Good Night Out presented at the Kings Head this evening the world premiere of ‘Constance’, an Oscar Wilde play, which was unearthed in the 50s, the only one of his plethora of works not yet produced. Wilde began writing Constance [...]

Writer: Oscar Wilde Director: Philip Wilson Reviewer: Jude Evans The Public Reviews Rating: It’s always a delight to see Wilde’s plays, with that wit, style and sharpness, and those all important epigrams which are so characteristic of his works. Philip Wilson’s production does not quite hit the mark, but comes close in the second half. It grows [...]

Writer: Oscar Wilde Director: Elouise West Reviewer: Lucy Thackray The Public Reviews Rating: It’s not easy to know what to write about a play, as I remarked to my companion when emerging from the cosy sub-pub Baron’s Court Theatre, when the butler pretty much steals the show. Luke Stevenson was indeed one of the main delights, playing both [...]

Writers: Jimmy Grimes and Jon Fosse Directors: Jimmy Grimes and Teunkie van der Sluijs Reviewer: Alex Ramon The Public Reviews Rating: The Spring season at Richmond’s Orange Tree Theatre concludes, as usual, with the Directors’ Showcase programme: a double-bill of short plays directed by the theatre’s two trainee directors. This year, the Showcase presents the work of Jimmy [...]

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 [...]