Bath Theatre Royal’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Shortly before starting rehearsals the cast of this year’s pantomime at Bath Theatre Royal gathered at Bailbrook House Hotel and StageTalk Magazine’s SIMON BISHOP was there to meet them
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Author: Simon Bishop
Review: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE* (*sort of) at Bristol Old Vic
★★★★★ This was a special night at the Old Vic – utterly vindicating BOV Artistic Director Tom Morris’s decision to bring this Blood of the Young production to Bristol. “There is nothing as thrilling as… people who can say new things in new ways and startle the rest of us into a new way of understanding our world.” Amen
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Review: TRYING IT ON at The Ustinov Studio in Bath
★★★☆☆ Fulfilling a personal ambition to write and perform in his own show, David Edgar, perhaps best known his memorable RSC production of The Life and Times of Nicholas Nickleby at the Aldwych Theatre in 1980, and who cut his theatrical teeth laying into the National Front, has been intrigued by the idea of a ‘letter to the future’ conversation with himself
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Review: THE ARGUMENT at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★☆☆ All’s fair in love… or is it? William Boyd’s play examines the ironies lurking behind the respectable façade of marriage, where frustrations can bubble up and express themselves through seemingly innocuous rows about the mundane – and raw truths can sometimes spew out like lava, scorching those nearest, and dearest.
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Review: THE COMEDY OF ERRORS at the Boiling Wells Amphitheatre in the Bristol Shakespeare Festival
★★★★★ With ten minutes to go before ‘curtain up’, three or four doughty Shakespeare fans, looking more like fell walkers than theatre goers, squelched their way up to the wooden beams that provided rudimentary seating, light brown mud adding greatly to the weight of their shoes.
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