Noël Coward’s TONIGHT AT 8.30 at Oxford Playhouse

“…Noel Coward plays are quite fashionable – over the past year or so, I’ve seen quite a number of Coward’s short plays grouped together to create an evening of theatre….I thoroughly enjoyed Tonight at 8.30 and if you like elegant costumes, nuanced silences and sparkling dialogue, I suggest you snap up tickets for all nine plays and overdose on Noel Coward this week…”

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UNDER MILK WOOD at the Everyman Cheltenham

Under Milk Wood is a piece I am particularly fond of and I have seen many productions. The fact that it was written as a radio play is its strength and its weakness. How do you present thirty-odd characters in dozens of different locations on stage? How do you portray a sleepy Welsh village and the myriad souls (some literally) who live there? As we all know, in radio drama the scenery and costumes are always excellent because we conjure them up in our imagination and that is the key to a stage production – keep it simple and conjure up Llareggub in the mind’s eye.

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WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? at Bath Theatre Royal

“… rips off any social niceties to finally reveal, at its heart, deep animal levels of fear and vulnerability that can be the drivers of dark human behaviour if not confronted….With brilliant direction from Adrian Noble on a clever set by Mike Britton, Tim Pigott-Smith’s journey into the tortured soul of George is an opportunity not to miss – a twentieth-century American classic running on the highest octane.”

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BENEATH THE ALBION SKY at the Everyman Studio, Cheltenham

“Very simply, it is the story of the walk told by its perpetrator Paul. It recalls his experiences, both real and imagined, and throws in a lot of interesting facts to keep the pot boiling…I like a bit of history and I like good theatre and Beneath the Albion Sky delivered both in an entertaining and informative way…it was really good stuff which I enjoyed a lot.”

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DEALER’S CHOICE at the Oxford Playhouse

“Five men gather every week, after the restaurant in which they work closes for the night, to play poker. They battle with cards and with egos to see who’s going to go home with the pot at the end of the game. And when a stranger enters one night the stakes become even higher…A play of male camaraderie and competitiveness, Dealer’s Choice is a great study of life.”

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