Tag: Reviews
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Accolade a play about the lure of having sex with the working classes
In the 1950s, every radio play seemed to be about the problems faced by the middle classes. A married couple would hit financial disaster and there would always be the line: “But what about the school fees!” I found this puzzling as a child because I knew you didn’t have to pay to go to…
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Sir Ian McKellen inspires multi-million gift to Cambridge Arts Theatre
Sir Ian McKellen inspires a multi-million gift to Cambridge Arts Theatre. A new studio theatre – a second space – similar to the Donmar in London – and which will be on offer to local amateur dramatic groups as well as touring shows, is to be opened on the roof of Cambridge Arts Theatre. The…
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You Heard Me – a play for anyone who has been afraid to walk home
You Heard Me at Cambridge Junction Review by Angela Singer This play is called You Heard Me. It called have been called Scream, because a scream is what saved a woman from rape, possibly rape and murder. The title is partly a tribute to the person who did hear her – a man called Ulla,…
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The Play What I Wrote – a show that’s off the wall – but it’s not Eric and Ernie
The Play What I Wrote at Cambridge Arts Theatre Review by Angela Singer If you like end-of-the-pier, baggy trousers, slapstick fun and falling about – and very, very old jokes, you will love this show. Some people in the audience were in near hysterics. But don’t go expecting to see a tribute act to Morecambe…
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Christine Bovill powers out her tribute to Edith Piaf
Christine Bovill sings Piaf at The Town and Gown Pub Theatre, Market Passage Cambridge. Review by Angela Singer This show is magnificent. It’s a blinder. It’s a blast and it’s a must see. Christine Bovill walks on stage and powers out an Edith Piaf song. Immediately, she has the audience in the palm of her…
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Animal Farm a masterpiece of puppetry
Animal Farm at Cambridge Arts Theatre Review by Angela Singer The book Animal Farm, which George Orwell originally subtitled “A Fairy Story” was written as a warning. Revolutions may start out with ideals – hadn’t the mantra of the French Revolution in 1799 been Liberty, Equality, Fraternity – but didn’t it degenerate into cruelty and…
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Saving Britney at The Town and Gown Pub Theatre, Cambridge
Review by Angela Singer This is a rollercoaster of a show. The warm and inviting newest pub in Cambridge, The Town and Gown in Market Passage, serves up something powerful after your cosy pre-theatre dinner. In a one-woman show, Shereen Roushbaiani plays Jean who was born on the same day as Britney Spears but eight…
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Before they were famous: Chaplin and Laurel in the circus
Charlie and Stan at Cambridge Arts Theatre Review by Angela Singer This show is an homage to slapstick. The actors are gymnasts, rubber limbed, able to fall about elegantly. Those who like silent films may enjoy these recreations of the genre they cherish. There is no real story. The programme for the production presented to…