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Writer: Alan Bennett Director: Christopher Luscombe Reviewer: Bill Avenell The Public Reviews Rating: It seemed appropriate that as we drove to the Festival Theatre last night the News should be full of the EMA and the National Curriculum debates. Alan Bennett’s renowned play about the value of education and the role of the charismatic teacher is indeed food [...]

Writer: Richard Brinsley Sheridan Director: Peter Hall Reviewer: Bill Avenell The Public Reviews Rating: By chance I visited Bath last week for the very first time and, walking in to the auditorium at the ever welcoming Festival Theatre yesterday, I felt I had returned there. An impressive and ingenious design (by Simon Higlett) on that great thrust out [...]

Writer: Alan Bennett. Director: Christopher Luscombe. Reviewer: Elizabeth Vile The Public Reviews Rating: Set in a Sheffield Grammar School during the 1980′s Alan Bennett’s play The History Boys concentrates on a class of bright, adolescent boys who are hoping to go to Oxbridge. Surrounding these students are three very different teachers who are educating the students in the [...]

Writer: Henrik Ibsen Translator: Michael Meyer Director: Adrian Noble Reviewer: Elizabeth Vile The Public Reviews Rating: “Life for Hedda is a farce, which it isn’t worth seeing through to the end” – a note by Ibsen The above note made by Ibsen while he was writing Hedda Gabler seems to me to encapsulate the feeling of the character [...]