Chris Eldon Lee reviews ‘John Peel’s Shed’ and ‘Circled in The Radio Times’, which he saw on tour at Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn. John Osborne has a cosily laconic approach to the microphone … shy and diffident … precise and pronounced. He also has the wonderful knack of constructing a riveting evening out of very little […]

Chris Eldon Lee reviews Shropshire Youth Theatre’s production of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ which is at Theatre Severn until April 11th I can’t remember having had so much fun at a Youth Theatre production. From the moment Elliot Auxant, as Mr Bennett, nails his first, page-one laugh, the comedy flows in all directions like runny honey. […]

Chris Eldon Lee reviews ‘Intemperance’, which is at the New Victoria Theatre in Newcastle-Under-Lyme until Saturday 20th April I always feel a play without hope cannot be complete. There is something missing from the playwright’s palette. Lizzie Nunnery infuses her first ever play (originally produced in 2007) with plenty of hopes and dreams – but […]

Chris Eldon Lee reviews “Edmond de Bergerac”, which is at Birmingham Repertory Theatre until Saturday 30th March. “Cyrano de Bergerac” is simply the most romantic play ever written”. So spoke the American actor Charles Lanyer, shortly after he appeared in it. In the UK, Edmond Rostand’s French classic has been regularly in repertoire for 100 […]

Chris Eldon Lee reviews ‘ART’, which is at Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn until Saturday 23rd March When is a work of art like a tin opener? Answer; when it opens a can of worms. Serge is a comfortably-off dermatologist whose best friends for the past 25 years have been the aeronautical engineer Marc and the rather […]

Chris Eldon Lee reviews “Drip, Drip, Drip” which he saw on tour at Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn. This is a much more exciting and imaginative piece of theatre that is substantially more entertaining than the under-selling publicity suggests. True, they trot out many of the familiar ills bedevilling modern society in general and the NHS in […]