Dylan Thomas’ famous radio play poses a choice when mounting a stage production: keep things simple and stick to the poetry, or attempt to inject some visual flair and risk overpowering the words.
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Don’t be misled by the title or the premise: this is a sharply funny and deeply dark comedy that contains plenty of laughs, from easy jokes to some more uncomfortable barbs.
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The little heard tale of the ‘Herring Girls’ is the topic for this outdoor community theatre show from Crude Apache, now seeing the light of day after a Covid-enforced delay.
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Some times asking “what have I just seen?” can be a good thing. This is one of those times.
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What should be a historical warning about the futility of war feels all to current in the present circumstances, as Theatre Royal Norwich hosts this reimagined version of Michael Morpugo’s Private Peaceful.
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Norwich agitprop theatre group The Common Lot have returned with another vibrant outdoor show, this time focusing on the history of English protest songs.
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Secrets and lies swirl around like the ocean in this brooding, prize-winning play about the darkness a community will tolerate in its midst.
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Charles Dickens didn’t quite do it like this, but this show is a phenomenal adaption of one of the world’s best selling books.
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What is worse: loud music or racism? That’s one of the stark questions posed by this inventive and oddly charming performance piece that takes us into the worlds of car meets and Islam.
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What big ambitions you have, said the audience member as they settled in to their seat for this adaptation of Angela Carter’s fairytale-twisting collection of short stories.
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Onions, it seems, are like family: they come in different shapes and sizes, are multi-layered, and can sometimes make you cry. At least that appears to be a theme of this evolving new show from Norwich-based Orange Skies Theatre.
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The story of the surprising relationship between a rich widow and a self-taught archaeologist, and their success in unearthing one of the most important finds in English history, is at the heart of this East Anglian drama.
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More sequins than you can imagine, multiple packs of cards, a rotating saw, and a coterie of inherited doves – what could go wrong? Everything.
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This new production of Private Lives had two big questions to answer: can Noel Coward still be funny, and is Nigel Havers still dashing?
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A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but does calling something a rose make it beautiful? This production claims to play with the Shakespeare favourite’s setting and genders – so does it still work?
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