______ 15 September 2025 ______ 5***** ______ In recent years it has been something of a masterstroke by the producers of the Sidmouth Summer Play Festival to bring the season to a conclusion with a gloriously, completely bonkers piece of fun; thus we have had ‘The 39 Steps’ and ‘Ben Hur’ played for all its […]
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______ 8 September 2025 ______ 3***1/2 ______ This is something of a coup for the Manor Pavilion Theatre – while ‘The Cottage’ had its first production in the USA in 2013, it took ten years to reach Broadway – it took another 12 years to reach these shores, for this is its UK premiere. Billed
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______ 4 September 2025 ______ 4**** ______ In the anniversary year commemorating 50 years since the death of R C Sherriff, it is a time ripe for revivals and it is a real delight to see ‘Home at Seven’ on the stage again. Sherriff, is, of course, rightly, best remembered for his First World War
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______ 1 September 2025 ______ 5***** ______ Written as part of a trilogy all set in the same suite of a luxury Swiss hotel, ‘A Song at Twilight’ is one of Noel Coward’s final plays and tells of renown writer Sir Hugo Latymer coming face to face with his past lives and loves, which may
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