For the past week, Norwich Theatre Royal has hosted The Goodale Brothers’ Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense. The show, arriving for its Norwich stint direct from London’s West End, had clearly been eagerly anticipated by Tuesday’s opening night audience, and with good reason – the show received a Laurence Olivier Award for ‘Best New…
You may remember Danielle Hope from all the way back in 2010, when she first donned the ruby slippers that would send her skipping down the yellow brick road, towards the successful career in musical theatre which was standing to greet her in the Emerald City. It was following her success on the BBC talent…
The performance tonight is best summarised through a description of notable performances. Antony Sher’s presentation of Falstaff maintained its solid brilliance, as did – though to a lesser extent, given the character’s development and maturity in Part Two of Henry IV – Alex Hassell’s Prince Hal/Henry V. This core was augmented by other roles, especially…
After the Globe’s stunning production of this play, starring Roger Allam as Falstaff and Jamie Parker as Hal, all subsequent productions are bound to be compared to it. This evening’s rendition, however, by the Royal Shakespeare Company, at Norwich Theatre Royal, starring Antony Sher as the portly knight, and Alex Hassell as a darkly attractive…
Romance, magic and amazing spectacle sound like your sort of thing? In which case David Nixon’s spellbinding interpretation of Cinderella will be perfect for you. Set in Imperial Russia, Northern Ballet’s adaptation of this favourite fairy-tale proves to be much more than simply a dance show. With everything from dazzling costumes, inspiring choreography to magic…
Cinderella is the Northern Ballet’s newest production to be gracing the Norwich Theatre Royal stage from 7th to 11th October this year.Full of the magic that makes Cinderellaan everlasting fairy tale, the Northern Ballet’s performance is a dazzling production under the direction of David Nixon. But behind the beautiful scenes created by set designer Duncan…
This iconic tale, written in the 1960s as a direct translation of the racial tensions running through Southern America in the 1930s, is one most of us have encountered – or will – at some stage in the course of our lives. It is a tale that resonates for numerous reasons, one being for its…
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