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Review of Harold Brighouse’s classic comedy Hobson’s Choice, in its centenary production. Bath Theatre Royal and touring. Directed by Jonathan Church.

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Review of A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Play For The Nation. (SEE LINK) This superb production starts its tour of the country in Stratford, and will use different amateur actors as the “rude mechanicals” in each city for the play within a play, 84 in total, and 580 schoolchildren. A five star review.

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Review of Don Quixote (SEE LINK) at the RSC, with David Threfall and Rufus Hound added.

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Review of The Tempest at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at The Globe, Shakespeare’s last solo-written play and Dominic Dromgoole’s last play as Artistic Director of The Globe.

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Deathtrap

Review of Ira Levin’s hit comedy thriller Deathtrap, at Salisbury Playhouse. Good production standards, a full theatre … but we had some doubts on the play itself.

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The hilarious  Secondary Cause of Death reviewed.Great touring production. The stage murder mystery will never be the same again! First rate cast includes Jeffrey Holland, David Callister, David Janson, Michelle Morris, Judy Buxton.

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Dad’s Army

Review of the 2016 movie of Dad’s Army added with inevitable comparisons to the TV series.

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Review of The Winter’s Tale at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse added. It was fascinating how removing extraneous concepts and reverting to a dark, candlelit Jacobean theatre made fresh sense of the play.

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wonder.land

Review of Damon Albarn’s musical wonder.land at the National Theatre. Huge production based on Aly, a bullied teenager who enters a wonder.land video game, creating an Alice in Wonderland avatar ….

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Review of Funny Girl, starring Sheridan Smith at the Menier Chocolate Factory added.

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