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Farm Boy – The Grand Theatre, Blackpool

Writer: Michael Morpurgo adapted by Daniel Buckroyd Director: Daniel Buckroyd Reviewer: Sally Cinnamon The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★☆☆   After the sensational hit of both the stage and film versions of ‘War Horse’, it seems like the natural next step to adapt Michael Morpurgo’s sequel, ‘Farm Boy’. Here, we’re greeted by Albert’s grandson (John Walters), now a [...]

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WHAT’S HOT – 24th October 2011

With Halloween just around the corner, it’s time to carve your pumpkins, practise your spookiest ghost stories and buy fake blood by the bucket-load in preparation for the scariest night of the year. Head to the theatre for some more chills and thrills with this week’s top tips – though you might want to take [...]

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Agatha Christies’s Verdict- The Grand Theatre, Leeds

Writer: Agatha Christie Director : Joe Harmston Reviewer: Rosie Revell The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★★☆ For those who accuse Agatha Christie’s work as being formulaic and predictable certainly never saw Verdict. The show is not so much a “whodunnit” as more of a “whydunnit” and it is all the more fascinating for it. The “Queen of Crime” certainly turned [...]

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Dreamboats and Petticoats – The Grand Theatre, Leeds

Director: Bob Thomson Music: Keith Strachan Writers: Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran Reviewer: Rosie Revell The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★½☆ It’s 1961 and in London’s youth club land Norman and Bobby compete to win a national youth song writing competition and much more importantly, for them, the attentions of the beautiful Sue. To complicate things Bobby notices his best [...]

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Jekyll and Hyde The Musical – The Grand Theatre, Leeds

Director: Martin Connor Music: Tom de Keyser Reviewer: Rosie Revell The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★☆☆ Jekyll and Hyde is a story we all know but few have actually read. Created in a classic short novel The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886 is familiar to us all probably due to the [...]

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Footloose – The Grand Theatre, Leeds

Writer- Dean Pitchford Director – Karen Bruce Music -Tom Snow Reviewer – Rosie Revell The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★★☆ Imagine moving to a town where dancing and music have been banned. It’s almost unthinkable but that is the predicament our hero, Ren McCormack played by Adam C Booth, finds himself in when he and his mother move to the [...]

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