Staging one of Shakespeare’s most well-known plays is always a dilemma: play it straight or attempt to reinvent? This youth theatre production mostly keeps it simple, allowing some great performances to take centre stage.
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For a stand-up show that lasts 90 minutes, Paul Chowdhry delivers astonishingly few actual jokes.
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Dario Fo’s famous farce leaves a unavoidable impression in this lively production by the Sewell Barn Company.
Explore MoreIt can be difficult to imagine that much
of Norfolk was once spotted with the rural communities depicted in Keith
Dewhurst’s Lark Rise, but this creative and delicate production brings those
past years back to life.
It’s a paradox that in a world of overloading visual and aesthetic sensation that Gilbert & Sullivan still hold traction.
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The lights went off half way through Mark Watson’s closing set at Laugh In The Park in Norwich’s Chapelfield Gardens on Friday night, but you could still the twinkle in his eye.
Explore MoreA proud member of the middle class elite, Hal Cruttenden is also a very funny, and very likeable comedian, and his set rounded off a great first night for the Chapelfield Park based comedy festival.
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With so many plays to pick from it remains a mystery to me why groups so regularly turn to Alan Ayckbourn’s playbook. This production of Taking Steps provides no answer.
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The lyrics have rarely matched the action so accurately as in Natasha J Barnes portrayal of Fanny Brice in this touring production of Funny Girl at Norwich Theatre Royal: she has her “eye on the target” all the way through, and boy does she keep hitting bullseye.
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The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society is putting on a 1920s murder mystery – but nothing goes to plan in this theatrical farce from Mischief Theatre.
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Part of a double run with Twelfth Night, this Watermill Theatre production offers a similarly musical take on the well-known Shakespeare texts, bringing songs and choreographed, physical theatre to the fore.
Explore MoreThe Friday night crowd had come to
celebrate the weekend, the bank holiday – and possibly half term too – and they
were definitely in the mood to party.
A literary twist on TED talks, 5×15
offered five snapshot views from writers and thinkers to challenge our approach
to the world.
This second night of jazz in Chapelfield
Gardens took a slightly edgier route, with four-piece outfit Get The Blessing
showcasing material from their five albums.
Reading from his debut book Grief Is The Thing With Feathers, Max Porter said it was too hot in the bejewelled Spiegeltent surroundings to get in to the really heavy stuff – as if the extracts he delivered with such brave force were easy words.
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