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 […]

Chris Eldon  Lee reviews ‘The 39 Steps’, which is at The New Vic in Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 30th March. Once he’d got over the shock – I expect even the dour John Buchan would be rolling in the isles at Patrick Barlow’s 21st century adaptation of his famous story ‘The 39 Steps’. Or possibly writing […]

Chris Eldon Lee reviews ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, which is a at the New Vic in Newcastle-Under-Lyme until Saturday March 2nd and then touring.   Director Conrad Nelson has set his Northern Broadsides swan song in 1945. The Battle for Europe has ceased … but the Battle of the Sexes is about to begin. And […]