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SHAKESPEARE: OUTDOOR, OUTRAGEOUS AND OPEN-HEARTED
Start by knowing that this is a bangingly entertaining evening out under the Suffolk skies, with ragamuffin costumes and lovely ramshackle beach-huts under the great chestnut tree. Red Rose Chain has been doing outdoor productions for years, and their venue ever has been, in recent year...
THE SEASON BEGINS!
Not doing formal mouse-rate reviews of these, but for local eyes and visitors it’s worth nipping through the ones I can get to – this one is around all week, before moving on to Southwold and I can report that director Charlotte Parry and cast do old Oscar proud. Respectfully, and Mark Sterling’s design ...
TROUBLED HEARTS AND TORCH SONGS
When someone pops a sticker on your cameraphone at the door it generally means a performer is going to get their kit off, repeatedly. Not in this caseI am relieved to say, though this 90-minute chamber musical does have one late and I suppose spoilable coup de théatre. And the first excitement is the seats: if ...
FLOWERS, PHONETICS, PHABULOUS
Always a joy to have them back: the phoneticist and the flower-girl, born to enthral one another and us. Cheers first for Keziah Ibe as Eliza, fresh out of Arts Ed on a first professional job. She eooowessand garrrrns at the start with confidently alarming shrillness, then suddenly – as the opera-crowd leave the stage...
AMBITION, LOVE AND CHOICES IN AN OLDER IRELAND
Jonathan Bank’s Mint Theater company lately gave us an arresting revival of Miles Malleson’s Yours Unfaithfully in this theatre, and here he is reinvigorating another 1930s play, this time by the near-forgotten Irish playwright Teresa Deevy, From the title I vaguely expected a familiar story of wifely ...