Theatre Reviews

WERE YOU ANYONE BEFORE DAD’S ARMY? – The Minghella Theatre, Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight

______ 4 August 2024 ______ 4**** ______ The story of Arnold Ridley is extraordinary. Known to millions from his portrayal of Private Godfrey in the (still) enormously popular TV series ‘Dad’s Army’ and as author of one of the most popular plays in the English language, ‘The Ghost Train’, this new biographical play is engrossing, […]

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SOME MOTHERS DO ‘AVE ‘EM – The Barn Theatre, Cirencester

______ 25 July 2024 ______ 5***** _____ As an astonishingly popular TV series of the 1970s, it took until 2018 for a stage version to hit the stage – with great success – it starred Joe Pasquale as the hapless character Frank Spencer, the role created on screen by Michael Crawford. The delightful Barn Theatre

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PARTY PIECE – Manor Pavilion Theatre Sidmouth

______ 22 July 2024 ______ 4**** ______ Playwright Richard Harris has written some of the most performed plays in the UK – ‘Stepping Out’ and ‘Outside Edge’ to name the best known; ‘Party Piece’ is a much lesser known work, but based on his earlier play, ‘Local Affairs’. In ‘Outside Edge’ the central characters are

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PERFECT CRIME – Manor Pavilion Theatre, Sidmouth

______ 8 July 2024 ______ 2.5      **½ Opening in 1987 at an Off-Broadway Theatre, ‘Perfect Crime’ is still running; a younger equivalent to London’s ‘The Mousetrap’ (now in it’s 70th year!). More astonishing is the fact that (apart from a small handful of performances), the leading role of the psychiatrist, Margaret Thorne Brent,

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