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Goucher, Gale and Myer’s Hairspray does exactly what it says on the bottle: Nottingham’s Theatre Royal burst with colour and glitter in this feel-good, fabulous musical. Yet the rawness of the racial issues of 1960s America remains intact with the uncomfortable realities woven comfortably into the uplifting and energetic... -
Written by Beth Steel, whose dad worked at Nottingham’s Welback Colliery, and directed by Adam Benford, Wonderland is a delightful celebration of solidarity among Nottinghamshire miners in the strike from 1984-85. Following the trajectory of six Nottinghamshire miners, Wonderland presents the harsh realities that derived from the National Coal... -
Patrick Marber’s new version of Ibsen’s classic Hedda Gabler is a rollercoaster in more ways than one. As the atmosphere swells and falls, in director Ivo van Hove’s imagining of the play, so does the quality of the performances. At times brilliant and others dull, the inconsistency of the... -
TITLE: Then She Was Gone AUTHOUR: Lisa Jewell GENRE: Thriller PUBLISHER: Penguin PUBLISHED: 2017 PAGES: 424 Ellie Mack was fifteen, a golden girl in her family’s eyes, when she disappeared in the blink of an eye. The novel begins ten years later after she goes missing and sees her... -
The show ‘And Another Thing’ was different to any performance I had ever seen before, and that’s because it was completely improvised. Personally, I cannot imagine anything more terrifying than performing an unscripted show, so I must start by praising them initially for that, let alone their fantastic acting and... -
Hilarious, full of innuendos and the perfect way to end the semester – NNT’s production of Richard Bean’s One Man, Two Guvnors is a comedic triumph. A modern-day adaptation of Carlo Goldini’s Servant of Two Masters, the play is a comedy in the style of Commedia dell’arte, or simply... -
A devised piece of theatre directed by Daniel McVey, Death of the Author is a witty comedy in which a group of literary characters are forced to come to terms with the loss of their creators. The clever concept of the play had me gripped from the get go,...
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