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Writer: Arthur Miller Director: Sarah Esdaile Reviewer: Audrey Pointer The Public Reviews Rating: Arthur Miller’s 1949 Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of struggling salesman Willy Loman is regarded as a 20th century classic alongside his equally celebrated 1953 work The Crucible. Death of A Salesman casts a critical eye on The American Dream and was described by Miller as “a [...]

Based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas Adaptor: Joel Horwood Director: Alan Lane Reviewer: Audrey Pointer The Public Reviews Rating: Written in 1844, Alexandre Dumas’ famous adventure novel is set around the time of Napoleon’s exile. This retelling by writer Joel Horwood and director Alan Lane captures all the fun and tragedy of “the Count’s transformation from wronged [...]

Writer: Geoffrey Chaucer Adaptor: Mike Poulton Reviewer: Audrey Pointer The Public Reviews Rating: One of the most famous and enduring works of English literature, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is a fourteenth century collection of stories written in Middle-English verse. Mike Poulton has penned a stage version of the original and under the keen directorial eye of Conrad Nelson it [...]

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 [...]

Book: Mustapha Matura Director: Don Warrington Musical Director: Dominique Le Gendre Reviewer: Nicola Harrison The Public Reviews Rating: ‘In the West Indies, the older generation are still afforded a great amount of respect. Their opinions are valued and everybody is richer for that; the young benefit and so do the old.’- Don Warrington ‘Rum and Coca Cola’ written [...]

Book: J.C Marshall Director: Gail McIntyre Reviewer: Nicola Harrison The Public Reviews Rating: ‘The best way to fight is to go towards what’s got you on it’s hook.’(J.C Marshall) ‘The Worm Collector’ is the first production forming part of the long term project SHARP which has been created to confront head-on the problem of knife crime concerning teenagers [...]

Concept and Director: Hans-Werner Kroesinger Reviewer: Audrey Pointer The Public Reviews Rating: West Yorkshire Playhouse is beginning a two-year long international theatre partnership with Berlin’s Theater an der Parkaue as part of the Borderlines project aimed at 16 – 20 year olds. This collaborative project explores how “historic, social and mental borders” influence identities. Die Kindertransporte and The [...]

Writer: Alan Bennett Director: Christopher Luscombe Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: Alan Bennett’s, The History Boys caused a critical storm when it first premiered at The National Theatre in 2004, with two subsequent tours and two reasonably large stints in the West End and on Broadway, not to mention the film adaptation, one can’t help feeling [...]