After a run at The Theatre Royal Bath, the touring version of Noel Coward’s 1966 play A Song at Twilight has come to Norwich. 53 years after its initial run with Coward playing the lead, the play is still captivating and insightful. Opening on a detailed and impressive set of a posh hotel living room…
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Review: Bookable Room 12 at the Drama Studio Rehearsal Room
With just one room, some plastic chairs, and the occasional dead-body, this eclectic comedy journeyed through a succession of wacky events flowing in and out of Bookable Room 12. The opening of the play welcomes us into a student-theatre-style performance piece – nothing out of the ordinary there. But just as the audience relaxes back…
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Review: Rough Crossing at the Norwich Theatre Royal
It felt odd to watch a farcical comedy set on a luxury ocean liner just days after the dramatic evacuation of the passengers on Viking Sky, the cruise ship that got into trouble outside the western Norwegian coast on March 23. As the comedic drama unfolded onstage at the Norwich Theatre Royal, passengers had to cling…
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Review: Stacy at London’s Etcetera Theatre
Inkwell Productions set up by UEA students Seàn Bennett and Keelan Swift-Stalley with their friend Ruby Lambert, staged Jack Thorne’s Stacy, at Etcetera Theatre, London. Ned Caderni and Caoimhe Blair both made their debuts, in producing and directing respectively. The one-man play follows Rob, played by Peter Hardingham. In his twenties and working as a…
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Game of Thrones: The Pantomime – An interview with cast and crew
‘It’s a real bugger to turn it into a pantomime, because the characters don’t really fit,’ remarks Sam Went, one of the two co-writers of Game of Thrones: The Pantomime. His voice comes through on the phone whilst at a table I’m seated with the show’s director, Susanna Jones, and actors Emma Gadson, Al Roberts,…
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Review: Caroline’s Kitchen at the Norwich Theatre Royal
The Original Theatre Company’s latest touring production, Caroline’s Kitchen (previously Monogamy) is the bitingly funny and uncomfortably relatable comment on modern family life that we have come to see so often. It shows us what appears to be a normal afternoon in the Mortimer family Kitchen, known across the country as the set for Caroline’s…