theatre

Katie Barr Hamlet: The Rest is Silence isn’t your everyday Shakespeare revival. This reimagined, community-led version of the Bard’s famous tragedy was staged in collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Theatre Royal Concert Hall Nottingham as part of the Shakespeare Nation programme. The result? A heartfelt, occasionally uneven, but...

Leah Khor Nottingham’s very own Theatre Royal flings open its doors to the gloriously blasphemous, wildly funny musical The Book of Mormon, running throughout the month of June. Since its Broadway premiere in 2011, the musical has been spreading its banter and feel good tunes across the world, and...

Leah Khor  Five minutes into … Earnest?, the lead actor didn’t come out on cue. A moment later, the “director” stormed onto the stage, announcing they might have to cast someone from the audience for the role of Earnest. Normally, that’s when the curtains come down, but this time, it’s all part...

Amelia Cropley Bleak and desolate Yorkshire moors, mysterious houses with hidden occupants and gothic heroines with gothic turns, Charlotte Brontë’s most acclaimed novel Jane Eyre will never not be on a reading list. It continues to this day to be a tale loved for many reasons, but its levels...

Katie Barr There’s nothing quite like a gripping whodunnit to electrify an audience, and the showing of Murder on the Orient Express at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal is a first-class journey into intrigue. Impact reviewer, Katie Barr tells us all of Agatha Christie’s classic detective tale, brought to life in...

Katie Barr When a classic musical like Calamity Jane rides back into town, expectations are as high as the Dakota sky. The Watermill Theatre’s revival, starring the ever-charming Carrie Hope Fletcher, promises a rootin’-tootin’ adventure across the UK. But does this production gallop to glory, or does it misfire...

Dennis Kelly’s Girls & Boys does an excellent job of exploring the slow, insidious nature of domestic violence, the unreliability of memory, and the unwavering brutality of loss. From the moment the play begins, we are thrown into the world of an unnamed woman—played with intensity by Aisling Loftus....