Theatre Review: THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE - The Lowry, Salford
With its strong cast performance, amazing puppetry, and sumptuous staging, THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE is a masterclass in storytelling. Imagine all the stories you read as a child; fairy tales, myths, Peter Pan and Narnia. Put them in a bag and shake them up, and you have the otherworldliness of THE […]
Theatre Review: THE PANTOMIME ADVENTURES OF PETER PAN - Opera House, Manchester
With its audience participation, catchy music, comic innuendos and laugh-out-loud slapstick comedy, THE PANTOMIME ADVENTURES OF PETER PAN ticks all the boxes. What makes a pantomime? Is it a villain played with comedic menace or his dimwitted sidekick? Is it the audience participation and the music? The innuendo and slapstick? It is all of these […]
Theatre Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL - Waterside Arts, Sale
Mesmerising in his delivery, Guy Masterson's A CHRISTMAS CAROL is one of the best theatre adaptations to grace the stage. In 1843 there was a novella published. That novella was A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens and would go on to be one of the most consistently read works on the planet. It has never […]