______ 29 June 2026 ______ 4 1/2 **** ______ Alan Ayckbourn’s plays have been performed more than those by any other writer in the 69 years since Sidmouth Repertory Theatre started in 1958. With 92 full-length plays in his oeuvre, it’s always good to see one which has not been performed in the past years. […]
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______ 28 June 2026 ______ 5***** ______ The Comedy of Errors is a play I have great affection for, as an example of farce it contains hints of Aristophanes and Commedia dell’arte and is the shortest of Shakespeare’s plays and one of the most accessible. Get a production right and you have a triumph on
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______ 27 June 2026 ______ 5***** ______ I have waxed lyrical about Sun and Moon Theatre in the past and, with their current production of Twelfth Night, I am not about to stop. Watching this Company at work is one of those deeply comforting theatre experiences which you can just enjoy and not worry that
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______ 22 June 2026 ______ 3*** ______ As day follows night, so the Sidmouth Summer Play Festival kicks off a new season, 69 years after it first began. The longest running weekly repertory theatre in the UK is back with 12 more plays to be performed over the 12 weeks from June to September. The
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