Review – Matthew Bourne’s ‘The Red Shoes’
This review appeared on the Essential Surrey website in February 2020. I’m in serious danger of becoming a fanboy for Matthew Bourne’s ‘New Adventures’ company. […]
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The Matchbox
This review from Essentially Surrey is from September 2019 and the production at Clapham Omnibus. Angela Marray gives a bravura performance in Frank McGuiness’s emotionally […]
Blood Wedding
This review is from Essentially Surrey in September 2018 and is about the Clapham Omnibus production. Lorca’s 1932 tragedy has been reimagined in an exceptional new […]
The Seagull
This review was originally published on the Essentially Surrey website in November 2018. Konstantin wants to be a writer, but his work is ridiculed by […]
Spring Offensive
This review dates from April 2017 and is the Clapham Omnibus production. It first appeared on the Essential Surrey website. April runs a guesthouse on […]
Don Giovanni
This review dates from November 2016 and refers to the Glyndebourne Company’s production at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking. It first appeared on the Essential […]
A Room With a View
This review dates from October 2016. The production was seen at the Richmond Theatre. A Room With a View is a visually interesting, but wordy […]
Extravanganza Macabre
This review first appeared on the Essential Surrey website and is from August 2016. “Extravaganza Macabre” by Little Bulb Theatre at Battersea Arts Centre, is tremendous fun […]
Single Spies | Richmond Theatre
Review of the Alan Bennett plays that form Single Spies, at the Richmond Theatre, March 2016. First published in Essential Surrey In the 1930s, the […]
Merry Wives | Northern Broadsides
Review of the Northern Broadsides’ production of Merry Wives at the Rose Theatre, Kingston. March 2016 Northern Broadside’s Merry Wives, at the Rose Theatre in […]