Cormac Richards

BREAKING THE CODE – Manor Pavilion Theatre, Sidmouth

22 August 2022 5***** The joy of the Summer Play Festival at the Manor Pavilion Theatre in Sidmouth is the juxtaposition of productions, widely differing in genre, being performed one after another. Witness the lunacy of JEEVES & WOOSTER from last week to the sublimity of BREAKING THE CODE this. Such variety is not handed […]

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JEEVES & WOOSTER IN PERFECT NONSENSE – Manor Pavilion Theatre, Sidmouth

15 August 2022 5***** PG Wodehouse was a one-off; his writings, particularly those featuring Bertie Wooster and his manservant Jeeves, are some of the daftest in all literature. Stage plays featuring the two are few and far between so this wonderfully original script by David and Robert Goodale, which was first staged in 2013, has

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JANE AUSTEN’S EMMA – Manor Pavilion Theatre – Sidmouth

25 July 2022 5***** It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is still enormously popular. Adaptations for film, television and theatre abound with versions of her novels and pseudo-versions appearing regularly. It is a delight, therefore, to witness Tim Luscombe’s lucid and pacey version of ‘EMMA’ which takes us to the half way

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GLORIOUS! – Manor Pavilion Theatre – Sidmouth

4 JULY 2022 5***** The extraordinary story of the soprano Florence Foster Jenkins, dubbed ‘the worst singer in the world’ was revitalised by the 2016 film starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant; this play, on the same subject, premiered in 2005 starring Maureen Lipman.  The third show in the Sidmouth Summer Play Festival presented by

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