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The Rocky Horror Show
Basques and fishnets, transexuality and sexual fluidity, both on stage and off. That’s what you get when you go to The Rocky Horror Show. Never has a show been so inclusive, with cast and audience united through a love of fun and demonstrative dressing. And that’s what makes The Rocky Horror Show unique and… →
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Reviews archive
Older review posts can be found here Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Here’s the idea. Take a children’s story, get the Sherman brothers to write some memorable music and lyrics and then introduce some sophisticated choreography from Stephen Mear and you’ve got yourself a hit that appeals to all ages. Well, based on the evidence… →
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Northern Ballet’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
As I sat at the semi-permanent roadworks at Maybury after a full-on, non-stop day of work, my only thought of the ballet I was to see that night was, “I’m going to be late”. My mind was full of the day’s trivialities, annoyances and grievances against the world, and in particular, ill-timed traffic lights. Less… →
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Goodnight Mister Tom
There is a famous quotation from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar that begins: “If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.” Those words should be embossed on the front of the programme of Goodnight Mister Tom, David Wood’s tearjerker play adapted from Michelle Magorian’s novel and currently at Woking’s New Victoria theatre. It charts the… →
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