Chris Eldon Lee reviews ‘Cabaret’, which is at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre until Saturday 7th September and Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn from October 22nd to 26th. I have never seen a production of ‘Cabaret’ quite like this before. Rufus Norris’s reworking of the much-loved musical is astoundingly good. His inventive enhancement goes more deeply and darkly into […]

Chris Eldon Lee reviews “The Strange Undoing Of Prudencia Hart”, which is at the New Vic Theatre in Newcastle Under Lyme until Saturday 13th July According to folk law, the Devil has all the best tunes.  And in David Greig’s play he gets all the best lines too. ‘Strange’ is the apposite word in the […]

Chris Eldon Lee reviews Shropshire Drama Company’s production of ‘Flare Path, which is at Theatre Severn until Saturday June 29th. This an absolutely superb play; a devastatingly good drawing room drama,  authentically written, in very special circumstances … in the midst of hostilities. Terrance Rattigan was himself an RAF Coastal Command tail gunner and no […]

Chris Eldon Lee reviews ‘Henry V’ which is at Ludlow Castle until Friday June 28th. Henry the Fifth is never going to be a complete comedy, but Here to There Productions have exhumed a fair bit of humour from the old text. I don’t recall ever having giggled so much at Shakespeare’s most patriotic play. […]

Chris Eldon Lee reviews ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’, which is at Birmingham Repertory Theatre until Saturday 18th May. The trouble with this new stage adaptation of “A Thousand Splendid Suns” is that it’s not as compelling as the stage adaptation of its predecessor, “The Kite Runner”. I’m in no position to compare Khaled Hosseini’s two […]