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The hit Tony Award winning musical American Idiot will be premiering at The Mayflower Theatre, Southampton next year (Oct—Dec 2012) with a full US cast before embarking on a national tour. Described by the New York Times as “the most adventurous musical to brave Broadway in the past decade,” American Idiot features the songs of [...]

Writer: Mike Bartlett Director: James Grieve Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: “All you need is Love, All you need is love, love, love is all you need…” the poignant words by The Beatles that hauntingly fill the auditorium at the end of Mike Bartlett’s entertaining and at times bleak exploration and ‘Attack’ on the baby boom [...]

Adaptation for the stage can be a tricky task, whether it is a reimagining of a classic text, a fictionalisation of real life events or simply a new twist on a tried and tested play. At the moment adaptations are rife in the theatre, from the clutch of new musicals based on films that are [...]

Writers: Steven Canny & John Nicholson Director: Gemma Bodinetz Reviewer: David Noble The Public Reviews Rating: Christmas is coming, and what better way to celebrate its arrival than to go to the theatre! No Wise Men was a festive frolic that just about contained a reference to everything remotely Christmassy, with the added bonus of not being ridiculously [...]

Reviewer: Tim Stone The Public Reviews Rating: To me, Mark Kermode is the alternative Barry Norman; a film critic with a harder edge. I’d seen him on TV (resembling an out of date Teddy boy), heard him on the radio and read many of his reviews; but a ‘stage show’? Mark Kerrrrmode is opinionated. I guess spending one’s [...]

Writer: Jonathan Harvey Director: Hettie MacDonald Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: When reviewing a show, especially If I have to go after the main press night, I try my best to avoid reading any of the other reviews that have been published. but walking into the Playhouse theatre last night it is hard not to see [...]

Writer: Tennessee Williams Director: Polly Teale Reviewer: Lorna Andrewes The Public Reviews Rating: This, Tennessee Williams’ first great success,and largely autobiographical, is a tale told by Tom Wingfield, who is both participant and observer. He reminds us from the outset that memory is a tricky thing: what we think we remember is coloured and altered over time. The [...]

Writer: Geoffrey Chaucer Adaptor: Mike Poulton Reviewer: Stephanie Rowe The Public Reviews Rating: Having studied Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales at O’level, I was looking forward to seeing this version of the classic tale. Chaucer and twenty nine other pilgrims set of from the Tabard Inn on pilgrimage to St Thomas Becket’s Shrine in Canterbury, it is as they are [...]