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Tag Archives: Maddermarket

Cold snap: The Wolves of Willloughby Chase, Maddermarket

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase is a children’s novel, rather than a play: accordingly, the Maddermarket’s Christmas staging, using an adaptation of Joan Aiken’s book by Russ Tunney, keeps our…

December 18, 2017 in Amateur, Children's, 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.

Melodic, comic, colonial: Franz von Suppé’s A Trip to Africa

A sense of real excitement surrounded the revival (and UK premiere) of Franz von Suppé’s A Trip to Africa at the Maddermarket Theatre, the culmination of several years of work…

December 8, 2016 in Operetta.

Adventure on the opera horizon: Preview of Franz von Suppé’s A Trip to Africa

Any great opera experience is, to some extent, a process of discovery. Whether I find myself reimagining a familiar piece thanks to incisive direction, noticing an aria afresh due to…

November 25, 2016 in Operetta, Season Preview.

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