Wednesday, December 11, 2019
There’s more gravy than grave in this version of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol – though one of the dining tables does conceal a
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Women writers can still labour against a belief that their fiction must be autobiographical – that the power to make things up
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Essentially War Horse meets The Lion King, in many ways Michael Morpurgo’s 1996 children’s novel The Butterfly Lion is a theatrical dead
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Geoffrey Beevers has adapted several George Eliot novels for the stage, including an ambitious Middlemarch Trilogy for the Orange Tree in 2013.
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Iago only suspected it. Broadway star José Ferrer knows it: his wife is having an affair with his friend, and they’re barely
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Chichester Festival Theatre has shown a golden touch with its summer productions of classic musicals. This year it’s reviving Rodgers and Hammerstein’s
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“A good background story increases a work’s value,” says Geert Jan Jansen in this ingenious caper about his life as a master
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The centrepiece of Rokia Traoré’s Brighton Festival guest directorship is this unique story-concert paying tribute to the ancient art of the griots.
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A grandfather clock with its pendulum strung with pearls. A birdcage with its bars snapped open. The distinctive sound of a baby
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After a long stretch without a family panto, in the last few years Brighton has sprouted two. Staged in a seafront hotel
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A glittering carriage pulled by a magnificent flying horse forms the centrepiece of this expertly and lovingly produced Cinderella. The animatronic surprise
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The trend for gender blind casting has spread as far as the Worthing family pantomime, where musical comedian Vikki Stone is drawing
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It’s hard not to compare villainous characters in children’s theatre to Matilda’s Miss Trunchbull. The marvellously mean and deliciously disgusting Matron in
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The first revival of Alan Bennett’s 2009 metatheatrical comedy does such a good job of convincing you it’s a rehearsal, it’s a
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This revival of Copenhagen is in safer hands than the secrets of nuclear fission during WWII. Michael Blakemore directed the multi award-winning
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Daniel Evans’ latest big summer musical has a lot in common with Chichester Festival Theatre’s 2016 hit Half a Sixpence. A working
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The faces of theatre past, present and yet to come are brought together in this unforgettable new work by British-German collective Gob
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It’s hard to imagine a better evocation of frayed nerves than Ligeti’s String Quartet No 2. This modern chamber classic starts
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The involvement of Hastings actor Emily Carding is a byword for a must-see on the Brighton Fringe. Known for her interactive, one-woman
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It must be a hollow triumph for programmers when their choices prove so painfully prescient. This double bill of shorts by Debbie
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Comprised of the People Show alumni and based in Lewes, Slot Machine Theatre have a reputation for inventive and inclusive family theatre.
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New Mutiny Theatre has been a company to watch since it reframed Romeo and Juliet for young audiences in 2013. Graduates of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:01PMThe centenary of the women’s vote is presumably the hook for this touring revival of one of Terence Rattigan’s best-known plays. Among
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There’s a flavour of the concrete jungle about this new musical take on Kipling’s classic from the Chichester Festival Theatre-led Children’s Touring
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The title of Brighton’s only professional pantomime may not be worth having at all costs. Director James Weisz and writer Patric Kearns
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Packing something for everyone into a joyfully unified whole is no mean feat. Sixteen years in to producing Eastbourne Theatres’ in-house panto,
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Worthing Theatres’ annual Christmas show has established itself as a pop-filled commercial panto with some of the spirit of community theatre. Snow
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It may be an elegiac period piece about the dwindling of country ways and the autumn of life. But this new touring
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The credit for unearthing this 1924 play rests with Richmond’s Orange Tree Theatre, which staged the UK professional premiere in 2013. But
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Deborah Bruce’s The House They Grew Up In is a subtle and surprising play that turns from the bleakest of comedies into
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How do we critique theatre by artists with learning difficulties? Are these performers regarded as less able than those with physical disabilities? Bella
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