It wasn’t until she got the audience on their feet that Deva Mahal really came alive.
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Skulking on stage in his skinny jeans,
white t-shirt, and fulsome beard, David McAlmont cuts an unprepossessing
figure.
A man’s struggle with dementia was the canvas for this astounding play without (many) words: a rich, adventurous, and deeply impressive production where every movement was deliberate and delicious.
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Tom Allen’s star is on the rise: he is a regular on TV panel shows, the host of Channel 4’s Bake Off: The Professionals spin off, and now on a nationwide tour with sell-out dates – including Wednesday night’s stop in Norwich.
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You can have to work hard to impress a Sunday evening audience, but Joe Lycett did just that with this rescheduled Norwich Playhouse show.
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There’s one word that overwhelming sums up the comedy of The Horne Section: daft.
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Are there any taboos left? Apparently so, if the reception for this monologue written by an anonymous woman but read aloud by a man is any indication.
Explore MoreThis tour was supposed to only take him to places beginning with M or W, so his stop in Norwich was unexpected.
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A youthful drama teacher inspires a class
in surprising ways – but this update of John Godber’s 1984 play is no Dead
Poets Society.
For a stand-up show that lasts 90 minutes, Paul Chowdhry delivers astonishingly few actual jokes.
Explore MoreYou would be stretching things rather a lot to say David O’Doherty cuts an imposing figure.
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Mary Shelley’s tale is one where pieces
of beauty are brought together to make something questionable. It’s a suitable
metaphor for this Black Eyed Theatre production.
Temperatures are running high in this
pacey production of West Side Story, as the Sharks and Jets battle for
supremacy in a fiery New York suburb.
When three female office workers have had enough of their over-bearing, sexist, arrogant boss and spy an opportunity to turn the tables things get very strange, in this song and dance production of the 1980s film.
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It is mentioned repeatedly during this new play that quantum biology – the science peg the story hangs on – is so complicated that if you think you understand it, you really don’t.
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