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Review: Shadowlands, New Wolsey
Don’t let a good movie overshadow a Great Stage Play. The life and loves of C. S. Lewis author of the Narnia Chronicles.
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Review: The Last Five Years
The Last Five Years is a romantic tale of lovers Catherine Hiatt a struggling actress and Jamie Wellerstein a successful young author. The story both starts and ends at the same point, the start and end of a passionate love affair in a unique style of storytelling. Cathy’s tale starts with her heart broken at…
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Review: Holy Mackerel
This year’s Eastern Angles’ festive offering Holy Mackerel is inspired by real-life events that happened in the port of Newlyn in 1896, when Cornish and East Anglian fishermen rioted over fishing rights in the waters off Cornwall. Trouble is on the horizon in the sleepy Cornish port of Newlyn. East Anglian Fishermen have descended, and…
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Review: Mercury Panto is a winner!
The Mercury Theatre Colchester is taking audiences on a journey to Old Peking this Christmas time with their production of Aladdin. Wicked Abanazar has hatched a plan to make him rich. However, in order to get the gold he needs to find the magic lamp and the only way to do this is to trick…
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Review: Bully Boy
The newly refurbished Mercury Theatre Studio makes for the perfect intimate setting for Bully Boy, a drama written by Sandi Toskvig. Private Edward Clarke is just 20 years old. A soldier in the British army the young lad has seen things and been in situations that most can’t even contemplate, let alone will ever experience….
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Review: Flare Path
Flare Path is a story of romance and drama. Set in a hotel close to an aerodrome at the height of war in 1942, actress Patricia is staying to be close to her husband, a pilot in the RAF, however when her ex-lover, Hollywood idol Peter Kyle makes a surprise visit her marriage is tested…
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Review: The Smallest Show on Earth
Take a classic black and white British Movie, add the music of one of the world’s greatest songwriters and you get one of the best new musicals in years. Many will remember The Smallest Show on Earth a 1957 British comedy film starring a host of great stars, including Peter Sellers and Margaret Rutherford. It…
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Review: A Midsummer’s Night Dream
Wendy Cook reviews Red Rose Chain’s summer offering in a woodland setting.
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Review: Little Shop of Horrors
In the world of musicals there are some that you can see over and over and still enjoy. Those that are the must-sees, ones that have almost cult status and The Little Shop of Horrors is certainly in that category. The current version is running at Colchester’s Mercury Theatre and is a joint-production with The…
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