PEDESTRIAN REFUGE at Bristol Bierkeller
Artistic director at Makeshift Wings, Amy Bethan Evans, has taken it upon herself to help give a...
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Michael Morpurgo’s PRIVATE PEACEFUL at the Tobacco Factory, Bristol
“…Simon Reade’s exquisite adaption and direction brings out the full human value of a life so carelessly squandered for ‘an example’. …Everything about this production is so achingly perfect. It is bravura storytelling and consummate acting with depth, sensitivity, emotion and a highly developed sense of moral outrage.”
Read MoreDUPLICITY at the Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol
“…The play covers a lot of ground in its one act, all of which adds to the intensity of mood we might expect with a punk theme and director, Rosie Mullin, has done a good in keeping the disparate themes from becoming a jumble…This is an engaging and ambitious play, ideally suited to the Wardrobe Theatre and will help cement the venue’s growing reputation as a place for imaginative theatre…”
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WILD MEN at Bristol Old Vic Studio
“…Certainly there were moments of real drama, particularly during the edgy discussion between the young soldiers as to whether or not to leave their posts in the face of impending doom, and when agonising over the fate of a captured German soldier. Suddenly we had insight into why choristers could be termed ‘wild men’…”
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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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