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The Sorcerer – Worthing Pavilion Theatre.

Writer: Gilbert & Sullivan Director/Musical Director: Jeff Clark Reviewer: Bill Avenell The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★☆☆ I always enjoy going to Worthing. The wonderfully friendly front of house staff, the enthusiastic buzz of the audience, the slightly quirky theatres, in this case the Pavilion where sitting in the bar looking out on The English Channel and the Promenade you [...]

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The Sorcerer – Mercury Theatre, Colchester

Writer:Gilbert & Sullivan Adaptor/Director: Jeff Clarke Reviewer: Michael Gray The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★★½ Was there ever a saucier Sorcerer ? Opera della Luna have taken Gilbert’s first full-length comic opera and fast-forwarded it a hundred years to the 1970s, where its themes of free love and mind-altering substances feel very much at home. We are at a garden [...]

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Die Fledermaus – Lowry Theatre, Salford

Music: Johann Strauss Adaptor: Jeff Clarke Director: Jeff Clarke Choreographer: Jenny Arnold Musical Director: Jeff Clarke Reviewer: Jimmy Hardwick The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★★½ Do the British ‘get’ opera? The question, which appears in the program for this production of Die Fledermaus, is a good one and one which I think I many people would answer in the negative. [...]

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