Author: Michael Hasted

A TALE OF TWO CITIES at Cheltenham Everyman

The real star of the show was the production itself. The concept, direction and, above all, the design, were outstanding and of the very highest quality. This is a production that would grace any stage in the land and is as good as I have seen anywhere, and I mean anywhere, in recent times. Breathtaking is a word I am loath to use but this was one of those shows where you sit there, snug in your seat, and are very conscious of enjoying every second and not wanting it to end.

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ROBERT POWELL

has been a star for over 40 years. He is known for his roles on film, stage and television. He is currently appearing in RELATIVELY SPEAKING at Bath Theatre Royal. In this exclusive interview with Michael Hasted he talks about his long career . . .

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BARD HEADS at the Everyman Studio, Cheltenham

Finding the Will, with their Bard Heads strand, have come up with a clever idea for their raison d’être – they take a Shakespeare character who, in a monologue one-act play, reveals their back-story and tells what happened to him or her in the future, years after the play has finished, as it were. I like Jules Hobbs and Richard Curnow and their Bard Heads.

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SPILLIKIN, A LOVE STORY on tour

Through a series of flash-backs involving the youthful Sally and Raymond we discover what her memories are made of. Young Sally is a bit flighty, a bit flirty. He’s a bit nerdy, a bit introvert, fiddling with wires, circuit boards and articulated pieces of metal. She brings him out of himself, he gives her a rock to cling to. She has ambitions to become an actress or a singer, anything to escape her boring home and parents.

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NIGHT MUST FALL at the Everyman, Cheltenham

Night Must Fall is, in some respects, similar to the last show I saw at the Everyman, When We Are Married. Both are very English plays written by established stalwarts of the British stage, both written in the mid-1930s and both plays were very popular in their day, especially in rep – and both were largely forgotten for forty years.

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