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Creative Director: Mark Baldwin Music: Bobby McFerrin and Yo-Yo Ma, David Tudor, Tobias Picker Choreographers: Christopher Bruce, Merce Cunningham, Aletta Collins Reviewer: Peter Jacobs The Public Reviews Rating: Arguably the national company for contemporary dance, the Rambert Dance Company launched their 2010 UK tour at the Lowry with the World Premiere of a major new work, Awakenings. Teamed [...]

Reviewer: Dave Cunningham The Public Reviews Rating: To state the obvious: Jokes & Tricks comprises Pete Firman telling jokes whilst performing magic tricks. This literal approach is present throughout the show as Firman constantly reminds the audience that what they are seeing isn’t magic but a series of illusions. On occasion he goes so far as to show [...]

Writer: Sean O’ Casey Music: Elliot Davis Director: Garry Hynes Reviewer: Dave Cunningham The Public Reviews Rating: The Silver Tassie takes author Sean O’ Casey beyond his normal boundaries. Although the show opens in an Irish tenement familiar from his earlier plays it features also startling geographic and stylistic shifts. The second act is told in Brecht style [...]

Reviewer: Ian Winterton The Public Reviews Rating: Of the hundreds of acts at this year’s Edinburgh festival, the name I kept hearing was Danny Bhoy’s. “He’s brilliant,” people would say. “In what way?” I’d ask. “He just IS.” Lacking in descriptive powers they may have been, but all of them were right: Danny Bhoy IS brilliant. “It’s a [...]

Reviewer: Ian Winterton The Public Reviews Rating: “How did you like the most depressing pre-show music in the history of the world?” asks Rob Deering as he bounds on stage. He’s referring to the fact he’s inadvertently made us sit through a particularly doomy Cure song – One Hundred Years from the album Pornography. Sample lyric: “It doesn’t [...]

Music: Andrew Lloyd-Webber Lyrics: Tim Rice Director: Bob Thomson & Bill Kenwright Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: It is arguably Lloyd-Webber & Tim Rice’s best collaboration, with wonderful music and some of musical theatre’s most haunting lyrics, but this production which has been touring the country for almost a year is now is looking and feeling [...]

Writer/Director: John Godber Reviewer: Cathy Crabb The Public Reviews Rating: John Godber’s play within a play about the effect of teaching drama in mainstream school is particularly resonant because of the current climate within the arts and to watch and hear the audience- who were mainly teenagers- laughing along and revelling in the opportunity to poke fun at [...]

Director: Gary Reich, Mike Nicholls, David Hoyle Reviewer: Cathy Crabb The Public Reviews Rating: An out of season and empty caravan park on the Isle of Sheppey is the setting for the Avant-Garde Alliance’s surreal romance/desolate tragedy Uncle David. World weary and exasperated by humanity, Uncle David (David Hoyle)has made a promise to save nephew Ashley (Ashley Ryder) [...]