84 stories by "Bella Todd"
There's more gravy than grave in this version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol "Â though one of the dining tables does conceal a
Women writers can still labour against a belief that their fiction must be autobiographical " that the power to make things up
Essentially War Horse meets The Lion King, in many ways Michael Morpurgo's 1996 children's novel The Butterfly Lion is a theatrical dead
Geoffrey Beevers has adapted several George Eliot novels for the stage, including an ambitious Middlemarch Trilogy for the Orange Tree in 2013.
Iago only suspected it. Broadway star José Ferrer knows it: his wife is having an affair with his friend, and they're barely
Chichester Festival Theatre has shown a golden touch with its summer productions of classic musicals. This year it's reviving Rodgers and Hammerstein's
"A good background story increases a work's value," says Geert Jan Jansen in this ingenious caper about his life as a master
The centrepiece of Rokia Traoré's Brighton Festival guest directorship is this unique story-concert paying tribute to the ancient art of the griots.
A grandfather clock with its pendulum strung with pearls. A birdcage with its bars snapped open. The distinctive sound of a baby
After a long stretch without a family panto, in the last few years Brighton has sprouted two. Staged in a seafront hotel
A glittering carriage pulled by a magnificent flying horse forms the centrepiece of this expertly and lovingly produced Cinderella. The animatronic surprise
The trend for gender blind casting has spread as far as the Worthing family pantomime, where musical comedian Vikki Stone is drawing
It's hard not to compare villainous characters in children's theatre to Matilda's Miss Trunchbull. The marvellously mean and deliciously disgusting Matron in
The first revival of Alan Bennett’s 2009 metatheatrical comedy does such a good job of convincing you it’s a rehearsal, it’s a
This revival of Copenhagen is in safer hands than the secrets of nuclear fission during WWII. Michael Blakemore directed the multi award-winning
Daniel Evans' latest big summer musical has a lot in common with Chichester Festival Theatre's 2016 hit Half a Sixpence. A working
The faces of theatre past, present and yet to come are brought together in this unforgettable new work by British-German collective Gob
It's hard to imagine a better evocation of frayed nerves than Ligeti's String Quartet No 2. This modern chamber classic starts
The involvement of Hastings actor Emily Carding is a byword for a must-see on the Brighton Fringe. Known for her interactive, one-woman
It must be a hollow triumph for programmers when their choices prove so painfully prescient. This double bill of shorts by Debbie
Comprised of the People Show alumni and based in Lewes, Slot Machine Theatre have a reputation for inventive and inclusive family theatre.
New Mutiny Theatre has been a company to watch since it reframed Romeo and Juliet for young audiences in 2013. Graduates of
The centenary of the women's vote is presumably the hook for this touring revival of one of Terence Rattigan's best-known plays. Among
There's a flavour of the concrete jungle about this new musical take on Kipling's classic from the Chichester Festival Theatre-led Children's Touring
The title of Brighton's only professional pantomime may not be worth having at all costs. Director James Weisz and writer Patric Kearns
