Theatre Reviews

YOU STUPID DARKNESS – Theatre Royal Plymouth – The Drum

3*** 12 February 2019 The concept of people running a helpline who are actually in need of help themselves is not a new one, but maybe setting it in some kind of apocalyptic future is. The volunteers at the Brightline Helpline arrive at work wearing gasmasks and discuss various disasters that have befallen Earth in […]

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SNOW WHITE AND THE HAPPY EVER AFTER BEAUTY SALON – The Drum Theatre, Plymouth

22 January 2019 5***** If I have a more wonderfully entertaining 80 minutes of theatre in 2019 than I did watching the wonderfully titled ‘Snow White and the Happy Ever After Beauty Salon’, then I will be thrilled and surprised. This clever re-telling of the Snow White story, set largely in a 1950s style beauty

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JACK AND THE BEANSTALK – Exeter Northcott Theatre

11 December 2018 2** The Pantomime Season is off and running and, seemingly, every theatre in the country is crammed with Cinderellas, Dick Whittingtons, Snow Whites and, at The Northcott Theatre in Exeter, Jack and the Beanstalk. There are many traditions associated with the pantomime genre and it is an almost uniquely British institution and

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THE COMEDY ABOUT A BANK ROBBERY – Theatre Royal Plymouth

2** 2 October 2018 Mischief Theatre made their name with ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’; the tale of an incompetent amateur theatre company whose disaster-prone antics have entertained audiences around the country for several years now. ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ and this play soon followed and found favour in the West End of London. Ventures

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