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12/09/2025
Ipswich is served by some great theatres and none more so than the New Wolsey which is renowned for some great productions. But every so often something comes along that is exceptional and this is the case with Peter Rowe and Ben Goddard’s Midsummer Songs. The production is the first of the new season at…
Read More about Review: Midsummer Songs, New WolseyAn exhibition by 20th Century women artists opens at Christchurch Mansion’s Wolsey Art Gallery next month and is accompanied by a programme of talks. “Obscure Secure” includes work by Connie Winn, Peggy Somerville, Anna Airy, Effie Spring-Smith, Kathleen Walne, Helen Kiddall, Prunella Clough, Beatrice Lithiby, Lucy Harwood and E M Every. The works form partof…
Read More about Christchurch Mansion Exhibition and TalksRed Rose Theatre Company brings us not one, but two great show this summer. Following on from the success of The Comedy of Errors, the same cast, with a couple of extra members, turn their hand to Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. As a young boy, Heathcliff is adopted by the Earnshaw family where he forms…
Read More about Review: Wuthering Heights, Red Rose ChainThere are lots of amateur theatrical groups around the country and they all do a pretty good job at putting on their performances, then occasionally a company excel. This is certainly the case with The Company of Four’s latest offering, South Pacific. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific first saw light of day in 1949 as…
Read More about Review: South Pacific, Co4Dumbstuck tells the tale of Ted, a research scientist who mans an outreach station monitoring the sound of whales. All alone with only the songs from the deep to keep him company, how did Ted end up such a recluse? One day he hears a sound, a whale song, however this whale is singing at…
Read More about Review: DumbstruckWendy Cook reviews the Complete Works of Shakespeare at The Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds.
Read More about Review: Reduced Shakespeare CompanyWhen it comes to a stage production of a well-loved TV classic such as The Vicar of Dibley any company are instantly on dodgy ground as comparisons are drawn with the original, this is not so with the Two Rivers Theatre Company adaptation. Drawing on three episodes from the award-winning series, producer Kay Friars has…
Read More about Review: Vicar of DibleyBrightly coloured and packed full of fun, the New Wolsey Theatre in the venue for this latest performance of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Gondoliers. The tale, tells the story of two gondoliers and three wives… But who is married to royalty? Set in Venice two gondoliers marry, however unbeknown to the newly weds, one of…
Read More about Review: The GondoliersPalm Wine & Stout tells the moving story of Taiye; born of a white mother and African father as he travels to Africa to meet his father and to learn more about his African heritage. With his half brother Femi as their guide, Taiye and his mother Jane, experience all that this vast country has…
Read More about Review: Palm Wine and StoutTom – A Story of Tom Jones is a musical based on the early life of Super Star Tom Jones, or as he was known back then, Tommy Woodward. Tom Jones’ route to fame and fortune was not an easy one, as Tommy with his band the Senators played the pubs and working men’s clubs…
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