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Vincent in Brixton - The National Theatre - Nicholas Wright's play directed by Richard Eyre and fresh from Broadway and London's west in tours here. Set in London's Brixton in 1873, a Dutchman works for an art dealer three years later he returns to Europe to paint, to lose his mind and to gain immorality.
Review - Vibrant Infusion.
Sept - Nov in England and Scotland.
Flesh'n'Steel - Fittings Multimedia Arts - Thrill to an operatic farrago of lost treasure, lost limbs, buggery, bigamy and a swashbuckling tale of the last days of Long John and Mrs Silver. Return of Award winning director and writer Garry Robson recently brought The Irish Giant for Birds of Paradise.
Review - Loose splicing continually unravels.
Toured Oct - Nov in England, Scotland and Wales.
Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Big 30 Show - Starring Jonathan Wilkes. Rock and roll, fish net and being part of it. NB The show has rude bits!
Review - Great night & Lionel Blair in tights!
Toured UK in 2003.
Didn't Die - Clean Break. From the pen of Annie Caulfield. Yards of pink satin, songs about Mae West and lots of jokes pepper this dark comedy about three friends, 2 are the former patients of psychiatric nurse, Katie. From the writer of This Life and Grim Tales. Traverse 2.
Review - Truthful tender performance in flawed play.
Toured Oct Nov in England and Scotland.
Le Tour de France - Théâtre Sans Frontières- Le Fantôme Cycliste has stolen the famous jerseys from Le Tour de France cycle race. But never fear, Sarah, Kent and Jack, our dynamic detectives, are on the case. In hot pursuit, they journey through France who'll be the fastest on two wheels - or even one? Recommended age 7-12 years
Review - Warmth makes up for lack of fear factor.
Toured Oct - Nov in Scotland and England.
Red Sun - AJTC- A new play by David Rudkin, ( Afore Night Come). An apocalyptic vision of a messiah or moloch rising up from a forest clearing.. Traverse 2
Review - Powerful allegory.
Toured in England and Scotland in Sept/Oct.
Two Sisters And A Piano - Out Of The Box Productions in Assoc with The Tron Theatre - Nilo Cruz's play set in Cuba 1991 has two sisters under house arrest, they dream & play piano and their jailer makes an offer will they accept? with Muisc, dance and that Cuban spirit.
Toured in England Scotland and Ireland in Sept/Oct.
A Special Relationship - Three Legged Theatre Company/York Theatre Royal - Sam is black and on Death Row. Barbara is white, British and old enough to be his mother. Directed by Lucy Pitman-Wallace and by Sara Clifford.
Review - Challenge of too small set.
Toured in England and Scotland Sept/Nov.
Fame the Musical - Cast of thirty with the West End Show Full of life , fun and those songs which "live forever"
Review of the same production seen in Edinburgh earlier in the year
Toured in UK
An Inspector Calls - J B Priestley's famous Time(less) play in the acclaimed Stephen Dalry's National Theatre Production.
Review - Dated but still relevant play in striking production.
Toured UK in 2002/3
Bread and Butter - Dumbfounded Theatre Company and Oxford Stage Company. C. P Taylor's 1960's classic goes from Baldwin to MacMillian governments set in the Gorbals, Glasgow. 2 working class Jews sit on a park bench and chew over more than sandwiches. Directed by Mark Rosenblatt.
Review - A well filled round.
Toured June 2003 in Scotland revival of a successful earlier run in England in 2002.
THE WATERY PART OF THE WORLD - Sound & Fury. This Way Up Festival present a production by Sound & Fury. Performed in total darkness, depriving the eye but concentrating the ear the show fathoms the depths of a chilling true tale with dizzying effect.
Review - Superb voice talents and haunting imagery.
Toured 30 April - 31 May 2003 in Scotland and England.
Midnight's Children - Touring RSC production. An inventive production tells the story of the birth of India and Pakistan, dramatised from Salman Rushdie's book.
Review - Spiced up by inimitable wit and insight.
2003 Spring Tour.
Of Mice and Men - Brimingham Rep Production of the Steinbeck story of two mens' freindship in the Great Depression. Directed by Jonathan Church, Designed by Simon Higlett, lighting Tim Mitchell, music John Tams and George Costigan as George and Matthew Kelly as Lennie.
Review - An intense experience.
2003 Spring Tour.
The Duchess Of Malfi from the National Theatre - Janet McTeer directed by Phllida Lloyd in Webster's tragedy where a young widow refuses to obey her brothers' command never to remarry.
Review - Dynamic yet fundamentally flawed.
2003 Tour.
To Kill A Mocking Bird - Clwyd Theatr Cymru Scottish Premiere of Christopher Sergel's adaptation of Harper Lee's classic of a fight for justice in a society full of racial tensions.
Review - Great singing, story and well played narrator but...
2003 UK tour.
Horse Country - TTI & Clancy Productions (NYC) The Fringe hit returns to Edinburgh. Two Men talk about everything while nothing happens.
Review - Sparkling piece of intellectual fun.
2003 UK tour.
Our Song - TEG productions with Keith Waterhouse's play about an executive and his touching affair directed by Ned Sherrin and starring Peter Bowles, Caroline Langrishe and Charlotte Emmerson.
Review - Amusing but unsettling.
2003 Spring Tour in Britain
Love and Marriage - Theater Royal Bath Production staring Adam Faith in Donald Churchhill's comic play about couples and what makes them stay together. Adam Faith died during this tour at
Stoke on Trent and the tour continued.
Review - Better to stay in bed.
Spring 2003 Tour in Britain.
Present Laughter - Rik Mayall stars in the Noel Coward comedy set in glitzy theatre world of the Jazz age.
Review - Laughter is nearly always present.
Spring 2003 in UK.
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