Reviews

You may remember Arnold Ridley as Private Godfrey, the gentle, old medic in the British comedy series Dad’s Army, but as well as an actor, he was also a prolific playwright. Of his 19 plays, the best known is The Ghost Train, written in 1923 after Ridley was stranded overnight during a rail journey through Gloucestershire. The play has a long history. Its initial production ran to sell out houses at St Martin’s Theatre from 1925 to 1927. It has been adapted for many film versions, the first a silent film in 1927.

Shrek Jnr is a big, high energy holiday treat presented in a big top in Stirling, with a large cast, great costumes and lots of fun. A highly immersive performance with opportunity to meet the characters and have photos, it is a great way to introduce little people to live theatre and a great school holiday outing for all.

Shakespeare wrote, All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts.

Our Man in Havana brings this quote to life in a frantic, fast-paced satirical farce that is like nothing I’ve ever seen before in theatre. Exits and Entrances? There must have been over a hundred! Many roles? I lost track!

Set in the recent past on two rural properties in county Westmeath, Ireland, John Patrick Shanley’s Outside Mullingar is basically a romcom of unrequited love between two middle-aged farmers, Anthony and Rosemary, and their quarrelsome parents. But being Irish of course,there’s a lot of talk of death (it opens just after a funeral) and with the constant off-stage sound of rain, rain and more rain, it’s a constantly bleak and gloomy atmosphere.