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Author: Jean Giono Adaptation: Puppet State Theatre Company Director: Ailie Cohen Reviewer: Val Baskott The Public Reviews Rating: For me this is the best show yet around the Fringe circuit. Jean Giono’s gentle story about a shepherd who devoted his life to planting trees in a barren landscape is here retold with children in mind. First seen at [...]

Why, six months ago, did I download a screenwriting program and decide to write a feature film from scratch? With no training in screenwriting, was I mad to dedicate half a year to this attempt? I can only answer by saying, I had an idea for a story that I wanted to tell, I wanted [...]

Devised/Performed by: Polarbear Reviewer: Honour Bayes The Public Reviews Rating: Whilst the terrain of performance poet Polarbear is a decidedly urban one of cool blue surroundings and computerised flickering descriptions, it is in many ways similar to the simple, barren beauty of the natural ice peaks that play home to his majestic animal namesake. An atmosphere of epic [...]

Writer: Anna Conomos & Susanna Willetts Director: Xanthe Gresham Reviewer: John Roberts At the heart of an actor/performance should be the ability to simply tell a story, to engage the audience in a way that can transport you to new and wonderful places, sadly in a lot of modern theatre this simply point seems to [...]