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Writer: Federico Garcia Lorca Director: Zahra Sabri Reviewer: Carmel Doohan The Public Reviews Rating: This performance, in the black box of the New Diorama Theatre, was sold out. It is not the usual line up for a sold out show: Federico Garcia Lorca’s Spanish play has been translated into Farsi and is being performed as a work of [...]

Devised: Oliver Smart and Matt Short Reviewer: Deborah Klayman The Public Reviews Rating: Billed as abstract, comic and disturbing, Life Still is certainly one of these three. Oliver Smart and Matt Short, clad in puppeteer’s blacks, communicate with their audience through the medium of a tiny blackboard – a convention that raises a few wry smiles, but merely [...]

Director and Creator: Leila Ghaznavi Reviewer: Alice Longhurst The Public Reviews Rating: Two black silhouettes embrace on a white cloth backdrop proclaiming in beautiful Persian poetry their love for each other. This is the tale of modern Iran, a story of revolution, war, loss and betrayal told through the remembered past of our heroine, Darya. What makes the [...]

Writer: Oliver Jeffers Directors: James Baker and Robert Jude Daniels Reviewer: Nathan Shreeve The Public Reviews Rating: Innovative, engaging, and with a running time of only six minutes, The Incredible Book Eating Boy is one of the more unusual pieces of theatre at this year’s fringe. Created for children (and youthful adults), the play is performed to a [...]

Director: Blind Summit Theatre Reviewer: Nathan Shreeve The Public Reviews Rating: Creating entertainment using only a bare table, and a cardboard puppet is hard work, especially when you have a sell out audience to entertain. However, Blind Summit Theatre have absolutely no problems with beating this challenge, and the final result is breathtaking. This production is an absolute [...]

Music: Toby Park Director: Mark Smith & Toby Park Reviewer: Melissa Rynn The Public Reviews Rating: Were I asked what I’d expect from theatre based around ancient Greece, the farcical humour of Mark Smith and Toby Park’s The Games wouldn’t have been the first thing that popped to my head. In a lively and fast passed show, the [...]

Writer/Director: Andy Lawrence Reviewer: Cathy Crabb The Public Reviews Rating: Taking some lesser known tales from Scheherazade’s Arabian Nights stories, said to be told in order that she wasn’t executed by her husband (there’s a tough crowd), Theatre of Widdershins is really thinking about us. By us I mean each child being transported to a wondrous place and [...]

Writers: Sally Brown & Steve Tiplady Reviewer: Deborah Klayman The Public Reviews Rating: Some productions are so beautifully simple that you wonder why all theatre isn’t performed this way. With integral music, a simple set and a wonderful rapport with the audience, this version of the well-known tale is told using gentle storytelling and only items that are [...]