There is always a temptation with Shakespeare to try to do something different: this version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream nominally sets the action around the Suffragette movement of the early 20th century.
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Shelley’s Frankenstein is a delicate story that explores what it means to be human; this musical version by Mel Brooks, not so much – but it is bloody good fun.
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The towering figure of Sir Thomas Browne has loomed over Norwich city centre up until recently, when a statue and art installation commemorating him his works was removed for what is termed in local government circles as a refreshed public realm.
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Billed as a culmination of a three-year project working with Norfolk communities creating contemporary responses to protest songs, this hour-long performance seemed sadly unaware of its own context.
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The opening event for the Norfolk & Norwich Festival’s temporary “speakeasy” venue was a joyous touching tale of man versus beast.
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This sensuous, stunning show is visually arresting from the off, engaging your emotions in a whirlwind of guilt, joy, excess and regret.
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Life with diabetes is far from Sweet Like Chocolate, as performer come DJ Paul O’Donnell explains in this unique show.
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This stunning, intimate, close-up show was definitely magic – whatever its title claimed.
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Chelsea McGuffin has brought a short, punchy circus and vaudeville-inspired show to the Norfolk and Norwich Festival for this year’s Spiegeltent residency.
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The hidden secrets of artwork in plain sight were revealed in this hour’s guided walk through central Norwich.
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Timed to coincide with the opening of a small exhibition at Norwich Castle, this walk around a section of Norwich’s city walls took an idiosyncratic look at its subject.
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Just a few songs into her gig Rhiannon Giddens said she had been told that “her genre is difference” – and you can see why.
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Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is a play in which famously nothing happens – the same is not true of this Silent Face’s production.
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Thousands of people have seen their once safe homes unexpectedly torn apart in recent years, a human tragedy of gargantuan scale: The Beekeeper of Aleppo tells the story of one couple’s journey from Syria to England.
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Diamonds are supposed to be a girl’s best friend – but in this sparkling musical retelling of the beginning of the end for Marie Antoinette they are anything but.
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