Chris Eldon Lee reviews ‘Peter Pan’, which is at Birmingham Repertory Theatre until Saturday 19 January. The word ‘reimagining’ can strike terror into any reviewer’s fairy heart. Oh No! Someone is taking an age-old favourite tale and messing about with it until it is barely recognisable. So, you can imagine how delighted I am to […]
Theatre Review : Jack and the Beanstalk at Theatr Clwyd
Chris Eldon Lee reviews ‘Jack and The Beanstalk’, which is at Theatr Clwyd in Mold until Saturday 18th of January 2020 It’s not every day you are sitting in the stalls only to be bounced on the bonce by an explosive six-foot sausage. The sausage in question is destined for the belly of the Giant […]
The Prince and The Pauper
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 […]
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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 […]
Theatre Review : A Taste Of Honey
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. […]
Theatre Review : Pride and Prejudice (sort of)
Chris Eldon Lee reviews ‘Pride and Prejudice (sort of)’, which is at Birmingham Repertory Theatre until Saturday 2nd November as part of a nation-wide tour. If Star Trek’s Doctor McCoy were watching this, he might be wont to say, “It’s Austen, Jim, but not as we know it”. Indeed, setting ‘Pride and Prejudice’ in outer […]
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