Articles...
Feb 12 2008
ARNOLD WESKER’S tale of life and love in a Norfolkshire farm- labouring family is a masterpiece of obser-vation with his unerring ability to seek out the core of his characters and their plight....
Feb 7 2008
BIZARRE things often happen in dreams and they certainly do in the dreamworld of Anima, the latest production from the Liverpool company Momentum....
Feb 7 2008
WHEN delivered with the charm, wit and pace Oscar Wilde wove into his work, his dialogue transports us back to a time when manners, humour and society had standing....
Feb 6 2008
NOSTALGIA ain’t what it used to be. Photographs fade and memories become air-brushed. We are all left with what might have been....
Feb 6 2008
IF THIS production is the yard- stick by which Capital of Culture will be measured, then any group planning to stage drama mustn’t hesitate to take it in – and tremble at the standard required....
Feb 5 2008
IF THERE was ever going to be any real magic between the principal parts in this most splendid of Marius Pepita’s ballets, with mostly languorous music by Tchaikovsky, then producer Ellen Kent has surely hit the jackpot with the husband and wife team of Kristina and Alexei Terentiev....
Jan 31 2008
THREE Sisters on Hope Street has the look, feel and sound of an important play. It may well be so....
Jan 24 2008
IS IT possible to send a steam-powered spaceship to the moon? Dr Frederick Watt believes it can be done. But, then, in Here Be Monsters, he is living in the Edwardian age when writers like HG Wells imagined scientists could do all sorts....
Jan 17 2008
IT MAY be titled Madonna and Me, but Tommy Kearney’s play is really about friendship, and how brittle it can be....
Jan 14 2008
THE Japanese have been leading the way in scary, psychological movies like The Ring in which strange, unexplained things happen....
