…Nick Harper is an incredible singer – by any standard. He could have fronted a rock band, no problem. He is also an amazing and original guitarist with an instrument that seems to have been specially made to suit his style and technique. And, if all that was not enough he writes powerful and emotional songs as well…
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“…Roxana Silbert’s astonishing production had echoes of Peter Brook. The set was very symmetrical, very angular, very scientific … But, of course, it was Ian McDiarmid’s show. He shone as bright as any of the stars he gazed at. His Galileo was mischievous, enthusiastic, eccentric and likeable…”
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I’ve only just got my breath back after seeing The Man Inside last night in the Studio at the...
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“…Apart from Matchmaker, it is difficult to pick out any high-spots. Fiddler on the Roof is just one high-spot after another. Because of the tableaux nature of the piece each song is a large production number which manages to be breathtakingly spectacular and moves the story along…”
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“We are very lucky in Bristol to have a theatre willing to take on such a project and give the company the resources sufficient to realize it. However it doesn’t merely deserve our support, it earns it through productions, like this, of the highest quality…”
Read MoreLieutenant Stephen Wraysford arrives at the front already bitter and scarred by a doomed love affair and, needless to say, things get a lot worse. Initially he lacks the empathy and understanding needed to fulfill his role leading his motley troop of tommies. He lacks compassion and resents the skylark’s happy song and carefree flight because, he claims, it doesn’t care. But as he is aware, what good is caring when everything you care about is taken from you.
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