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Monthly Archives: October 2017

The Doctor will see you now: The Curse of the Black Death, UpShoot Theatre Company

Bungay boasts several natural blessings when it comes to the arts. The town itself is of storybook prettiness; its Georgian theatre, sensitively restored in recent years, still has some original…

October 31, 2017 in New writing, Theatre.

Halloween shivers: Ghost Stories from M.R. James, Simon Michael-Morgan

The Suffolk coast, though dotted with pastel-painted beach huts and gracious Edwardian esplanades, can also be unnervingly bleak – and eerie. So many East Anglian villages have slipped under the…

October 28, 2017 in Theatre.

Fresh sea air: Much Ado About Puffin, Open Attic Company

“On a small island, in the middle of the sea, a man meets a big bird…” Much Ado About Puffin tells a beguiling story of an unlikely, exciting friendship in…

October 27, 2017 in Children's, Theatre.

Heartworn hoodlums: Handel’s Rodelinda, ENO

Even ruthless, psychotic gangsters have to fall in love sometimes. And Rodelinda is all about what happens when the people at the top of the cruel power pyramid have got their minds…

October 27, 2017 in Opera.

Half-term heaven: The Dream Factory, House of Stray Cats

“Have you ever wondered where dreams come from? Or how they get into your head?” A thought-provoking debut production from House of Stray Cats, The Dream Factory takes us on…

October 24, 2017 in Theatre.

Desperate to live the truth: An Ideal Husband, Oscar Wilde

It is a strange and fascinating inversion of life by art that, as Oscar Wilde’s own life unravelled towards its final, dark ruin, his dramas became ever lighter and funnier.…

October 21, 2017 in Theatre.

“I was made for destruction;” Wilde at Heart, Patrick Marley

The last time I saw a one-man show which an actor had personally researched about the life, times and trials of his lifelong hero, it was Simon Callow’s brilliantly vivid…

October 19, 2017 in Theatre.

Anglian Mist, Tim Lane & Cordelia Spence

Stuff of Dreams Theatre Company first performed Anglian Mist in a site-specific, immersive performance on Orford Ness itself in June. Written by Tim Lane and Cordelia Spence, who also directs,…

October 9, 2017 in Theatre.

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