Entertainment

Review: Little Match Girl

16/12/2013

The Christmas offering from DanceEast this year is the Little Match Girl. Directed and choreographed by Arthur Pita, this show is truly magical. Fiammetta is desperately trying to sell her matches hoping to earn enough money for a much needed meal. It’s a freezing cold Christmas Eve and she encounters many characters on her journey…

Review: Sleeping Beauty, Mercury Theatre

09/12/2013

Sleeping Beauty is the panto of choice for the Mercury Theatre this year bringing a little bit of fairy magic to Colchester. Everyone knows this well told tale of a baby princess that is cursed by an old woman, before she reaches her sixteenth birthday she will pick her finger and die… The baby’s fairy…

Review: The Brontës of Dunwich

If you are looking for a show this Christmas that is a little bit different from the norm, then Eastern Angles production of The Brontës of Dunwich Heath… and Cliff is the show for you. The Eastern Angles madcap Christmas show has now become a firm favourite with many a theatre-goer and this year’s offering…

Review: Dick Whittington, New Wolsey

28/11/2013

Classic rock n roll hits coupled with a Dame, ‘with considerably big buns’, can only mean one thing…Yes, it’s Wolsey panto Time! This year the theatre add their rock n roll panto magic to the classic tale of Dick Whittington. London is looking for a new Mayor, and it’s looking like the evil King Rat…

Review: The Grim Tales, Wolsey Studio

25/10/2013

If you go down to the woods today you’re sure of a big surprise… And, this certainly is the case with the latest offering from the New Wolsey Youth Theatre. The Grim Tales brings seven classic stories by the Brothers Grimm, including Hansel & Gretel, Ashputtel, The Lady and The Lion, Rumpelstiltskin and Little Red…

Review: Stags and Hens

18/10/2013

Willy Russell’s Stags and Hens is the latest production by am-dram group The Two Rivers Theatre Company and well worth seeing.

Review: Jumpers for Goalposts

16/10/2013

You don’t have to be a football fan to enjoy Jumpers for Goalposts a five-a-side dressing room based romantic comedy. Barely Athletic certainly live up to the teams name a mismatch of characters who certainly are not going to be playing at Wembley anytime soon. Viv, lesbian pub landlady is the wannabe team captain, Beardy…

Review: Our House – New Wolsey

18/09/2013

Our House is a story set around the music of Madness and a masterpiece.

Review: Taming of the Shrew

26/07/2013

Red Rose Chain are back with another performance in the forest and this year they have a new home.

Review: Co4 “Anything Goes”

05/07/2013

It’s all aboard the S.S. American for local theatre Group, Company of Four, in their latest production of Cole Porter’s Anything Goes. Full of recognisable musical numbers and a comical storyline, Anything Goes tells the story of Wall Street broker, Billy Crocker who stows away on board the ship in the hope that he will…