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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Watermill Theatre, Bagnor by Julie Watterston

Watermill Theatre, Bagnor: The collaboration between the Watermill's Outreach project and this all-male experimental theatre company began two years ago at the Edinburgh Fringe and has …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:32AM
Monday, April 22, 2013

Teechers, Wilde Theatre, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell by Julie Watterston

Wilde Theatre, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell: Local newspaper headlines abound with OFSTED results and the lack of school places at this time of year, and the playground is full of …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AM
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

The Miser, Watermill Theatre, Bagnor, Newbury by Julie Watterston

Watermill Theatre, Bagnor, Newbury: The Miser is the first production at the Watermill under the auspices of Freewheel, the theatre's initiative to support emerging young artists, mento…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:24AM
Friday, April 5, 2013

Miss Julie, Reading University by Julie Watterston

Reading University: At last Reading has its own professional repertory theatre company to offer discerning theatregoers an intimate experience of small-scale drama in the studio environment …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:34AM
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Sleuth, Watermill Theatre, Newbury by Julie Watterston

Watermill Theatre, Newbury: Dated it may be, but Shaffer's intricately woven web of Russian roulette still works as a light-hearted thriller almost half a century after it won awards on…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:25PM
Monday, February 4, 2013

Spring Seasonal Sauce, Watermill Theatre, Bagnor by Julie Watterston

Watermill Theatre, Bagnor: This corny cornucopia of memorable music hall medleys brings together victorious vignettes and entertaining interludes in a show which has the audience smiling fro…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:35AM
Monday, January 28, 2013

Birdsong, Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke by Julie Watterston

Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke: The Original Theatre Company is one of those increasingly scarce companies whose productions belie the struggles of touring groups by creating not only fantas…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:57AM
Monday, December 17, 2012

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Anvil Theatre, Basingstoke by Julie Watterston

Anvil Theatre, Basingstoke: Huge, expressive gestures and larger than life characters abound in this excellently staged and very traditional pantomime that has all the ingredients we love an…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:51AM

Beauty and the Beast, Hexagon, Reading by Julie Watterston

Hexagon, Reading: The Hexagon's offering this year is not quite so on-the-button as last year's by the same production team. Read the full review

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:42AM
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Swan, High Wycombe by Julie Watterston

Swan, High Wycombe: What a revelation and a joy to see Strictly's Mr Nasty set himself up for criticism by taking to the stage as the Wicked Queen. Yet despite laying himself open to ne…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:46AM
Monday, December 3, 2012

Cinderella, Corn Exchange, Newbury by Julie Watterston

Corn Exchange, Newbury: Obscure traditionality is a new paradigm for the Corn Exchange panto this year. While convention converges with creativity in the hope of building on last year's…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:23AM
Monday, November 26, 2012

The Arabian Nights, Watermill Theatre, Bagnor by Julie Watterston

Watermill Theatre, Bagnor: A delightful evening of storytelling awaits the audience in Bagnor in a very traditional style mixed with the usual Watermill resourcefulness and originality. Last…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:41AM
Tuesday, October 2, 2012

The Tempest, Watermill Theatre, Bagnor by Julie Watterston

Watermill Theatre, Bagnor: The idyllic isolation of a magical isle, with an enforced captivity enabling intellectual study and mystical creativity, is the setting for Ben Crystal and Paul Ha…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:02AM
Monday, October 1, 2012

Mother Courage, Wilde Theatre, South Hill Park, Bracknell by Julie Watterston

Wilde Theatre, South Hill Park, Bracknell: Overcoming adversity is a timeless challenge that draws upon the understanding of an audience, be it in the face of Nazism and the Second World War…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AM
Thursday, August 9, 2012

Thoroughly Modern Millie, Watermill Theatre, Bagnor by Julie Watterston

Watermill Theatre, Bagnor: It's difficult not to draw comparisons between the Watermill's musical production of Thoroughly Modern Millie and the venue's philosophical and stra…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:49AM
Friday, July 6, 2012

Ben Hur, Watermill, Bagnor by Julie Watterston

Watermill, Bagnor: Epic to microscopic. A cast of 125,000 reduced to a cast of four. The big screen to the tiny stage. Read the full review

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AM
Monday, May 21, 2012

Of Mice and Men, Watermill Theatre, Bagnor by Julie Watterston

Watermill Theatre, Bagnor: As a novel that Steinbeck evidently created with a mission to write for the theatre, it is true that the dialogue and setting needs little adaption for the stage. …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:43AM
Friday, April 27, 2012

Love on the Tracks, Watermill Theatre, Bagnor, West Berkshire by Julie Watterston

Watermill Theatre, Bagnor, West Berkshire: Richard Attlee's inspired dramatic compilation of a series of short stories by Anton Chekhov has resulted in this enchanting myopic. Focusing …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AM
Monday, April 23, 2012

Lilies on the Land, Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke by Julie Watterston

Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke: One of the most poignant thoughts on watching Lilies on the Land is that, had this been written ten years later, it may never have been written at all and the…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:23PM
Monday, March 26, 2012

Hormonal Housewives, Anvil Theatre, Basingstoke by Julie Watterston

Anvil Theatre, Basingstoke: Hormonal Housewives follows on from Girls' Night Out and other such productions that attract a wholly female audience. Although it is not as sophisticated in…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:35AM
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Lettice and Lovage, Watermill Theatre, Bagnor, Newbury by Julie Watterston

Watermill Theatre, Bagnor, Newbury: Peter Shaffer may reputedly have written Lettice and Lovage for Dame Maggie Smith but had he written it 25 years later, perhaps he may have considered Sel…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:34AM

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