Chris Eldon Lee reviews ‘Rape of the Fair Country’, which is at Clwyd Theatr Cymru until Saturday 9th March. Watching ‘Rape of the Fair Country’ is a bit like doing the London marathon. Everybody seems to be running, it’s longer than you think, it gets much tougher towards the end and you’re exhausted when it’s […]

Chris Eldon Lee reviews the UK stage premiere of Philip Pullman’s I Was A Rat which is at Birmingham Old Rep until March 2nd and at Salford’s Lowry and Hereford’s Courtyard Theatre in May. There are some moving and beautiful moments in this refreshingly clever production. Teresa Ludovico, artistic director of Bari’s Teatro Kismet in […]

Chris Eldon Lee reviews “Go Back For Murder” which is at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre until Saturday 9th February and then Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn from the 15th to 20th July 2013. The line “You look just like your mother!” comes in uncommonly handy in “Go Back For Murder”, as the highly versatile Sophie Ward plays both […]

Conrad Nelson as Graham Photo by Andrew Billington Chris Eldon Lee reviews “Talking Heads”, which runs at the New Vic Theatre in Newcastle-under-Lyme until February 16th 2013. I met Alan Bennett once, at a writing seminar in London. An aspiring playwright asked him what he thought of the latest crop of young writers and he […]