Chris Eldon Lee reviews ‘The Prince and The Pauper’, which is at the New Vic Theatre in Newcastle-Under-Lyme until Saturday 25th January. I hereby excuse you from thinking you are seeing double at the New Vic this Christmas. No, you’ve not been at the Port … the actors playing the Prince and the Pauper are […]

Chris Eldon Lee reviews Hotbuckle Theatre’s ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’ which he saw at Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn as part of their national tour. They’ve jolly well gone and done it, yet again! This season the highly successful and perfectly proven Hotbuckle formula has been applied to Thomas Hardy’s remorseful story – and it fits like […]

Chris Eldon Lee reviews ‘A Taste of Honey’, which is at Wolverhampton Grand until Saturday 9th November. ‘A Taste of Honey’ was drafted in two quick weeks on a borrowed typewriter by a young woman who had only been to the theatre once in her life and thought she could do better than Terrance Rattigan. […]

Chris Eldon Lee reviews ‘Birthdays Past, Birthdays Present’ and ‘Season’s Greetings’ which are at the New Vic in Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 26th October. Alan Ayckbourn’s theatre company has travelled down from Scarborough to Stoke with not one, but two comedies about disastrous family celebrations. This season’s new play, ‘Birthdays Past, Birthdays Present’ is pretty much […]

Chris Eldon Lee reviews ‘Pavilion’, which runs at Theatre Clywd in Mold until Saturday 12th October This is a most exciting stage debut by writer Emily White; blessed with an uber-full-on, loud and proud, epic-proportions treatment by Clywd’s artistic director Tamara Harvey. The teenagers beside me were ecstatic about it. And so they should be, […]