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CORMAC RICHARDS THEATRE AWARDS 2025 – NOMINATIONS

WE ARE DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE THE NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2025 CORMAC RICHARDS THEATRE AWARDS – THE WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON 27 DECEMBER.   COMEDY PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR PRESENT LAUGHTER – Exeter University Theatre Company DON’T DRESS FOR DINNER – Manor Pavilion Theatre, Sidmouth TIME AND TIME AGAIN – Manor Pavilion Theatre, Sidmouth SEE

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CORMAC RICHARDS THEATRE REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2025 – PART TWO

July The second half of the year kicked off with the delightful Quartet by Ronald Harwood. Andrew Beckett’s excellent and meticulously dressed set was peopled by some of the most experienced members of the Sidmouth rep alumni; Hilary Harwood, Erin Geraghty, James Pellow and Paul Lavers – it was a pleasure to see the quartet

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IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE – Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis

______ 20 December 2025 ______ 4**** ______ The short, self-published, 1943 story ‘The Greatest Gift’ by Philip van Doren Stern was probably never meant to be celebrated for so many decades, and indeed it isn’t, except in its adaptation to celluloid as ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ made in 1946. With a few echoes of ‘A

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HAUNTED SHADOWS – Alma Tavern Theatre, Clifton, Bristol

______ 24 October 2025 ______ 4**** ______ At the start of ‘Haunted Shadows’ we are made fully aware that there was a lot more to writer, Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) than ‘The Railway Children’, ‘Five Children and It’ and ‘The Treasure Seekers’ – wonderful stories for children, of course, but there was another side to her

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