Chris Eldon Lee reviews “The Girl Next Door” by Alan Ayckbourn, which is at the New Vic Theatre in Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 18th September. Don’t worry. I’m not going to spoil anything. It’s just that the latest theatrical device from this ever inventive and craftiest of playwrights comes right at the end. After a tortuous […]
Idyll – Pentabus Theatre Company
Chris Eldon Lee review Pentabus Theatre Company’s “Idyll” which is at Stokesay Court near Craven Arms until Sunday 22nd August – and then touring. I enjoyed the last collaboration between Pentabus Theatre Company and writer Matt Hartley so much, I saw it twice. Now, under the company’s new director Elle While, I’m delighted to report […]
King Lear at Stokesay Court
Chris Eldon Lee review ‘KING LEAR’, presented by Here To There Theatre Company at Stokesay Court, Shropshire, until Sat 26th June – as part of the Ludlow Festival Fringe. Theatre directors seem unable to resist ‘doing something’ with King Lear. I’ve seen him played by a woman, and set in a nursing home, or in […]
We’ll Have To Do It Again Then, Won’t We!
Chris Eldon Lee reviews Brad Fits one woman show which returns to Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn immediately after Christmas No single man has ever endeared himself to Shrewsbury like Brad Fit. Ten years ago, he took the town’s flagging pantomime and turned into the Rolls Royce of entertainment; directing the show himself and playing the Dame […]
Theatre Review : The Glee Club
Chris Eldon Lee reviews ‘The Glee Club’, which is Theatre Clwyd until Saturday 14th of March. The tour includes Malvern in April. Where there’s muck … there’s talent. Richard Cameron isn’t the first writer to mine that particular seam, in search of a cracking story. The idea that men who grafted all day long in […]
Theatre Review : Dead Good
Chris Eldon Lee reviews Vamos Theatre’s ‘Dead Good’ which he saw at Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn. The tour includes Wolverhampton’s Arena Theatre on March 5th and 6th. This is the big one! I have watched Vamos Theatre company with increasing admiration over the past 15 years. They entered my heart in my local village hall with […]
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