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We Will Hear the Angels review – five characters in search of connection
Multi-art form company Magnetic North celebrate 25 years with a drifting musical journey that moves from isolation to belonging

Clare Brennan

02, Feb, 2025 @10:30 AM

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A Man for All Seasons review – Martin Shaw excels in Robert Bolt’s timeless Tudor morality play
Shaw conveys both the public and private Thomas More in a period-perfect if patchy production of Bolt’s 1960 play of power and corruption

Clare Brennan

26, Jan, 2025 @11:30 AM

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La Pendue: La Manékine review: puppets and dreams create an utterly strange fairytale
French company La Pendue’s MimeLondon curtain-raiser reimagines a Brothers Grimm tale with puppets and a one-man band

Clare Brennan

19, Jan, 2025 @5:30 AM

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Twelfth Night review – a musically uplifting, concept-heavy RSC production
Shakespeare’s fleet-footed romance is somewhat constrained by Prasanna Puwanarajah’s direction, yet there are memorable moments

Clare Brennan

12, Jan, 2025 @11:30 AM

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Aladdin review – wishes do come true
A stand-in Genie saves the day in a magical production of the age-old story that has audience members young and old suspending disbelief

Clare Brennan

22, Dec, 2024 @11:00 AM

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The Borrowers review – Mary Norton’s classic brought to vivid little-and-large life
The audience sees above and below the floorboards – with a little help from puppets – as Mark Babych’s production cleverly plays with scale

Clare Brennan

15, Dec, 2024 @11:30 AM

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The Three Musketeers review – a swashbuckler without a dramatic cutting edge
Theresa Heskins’s Dumas adaptation provides fantastic action yet reduces the scheming servant Milady to a plot device

Clare Brennan

01, Dec, 2024 @11:30 AM

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The Sound of Music review – a joyous blast of song and hope that speaks to today
This captivating production of the evergreen musical is a fitting swansong from Pitlochry’s outgoing artistic director, Elizabeth Newman

Clare Brennan

24, Nov, 2024 @11:30 AM

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Kenrex review – co-writer Jack Holden plays an entire town in ‘true’ crime thriller
Holden and Ed Stambollouian’s one-man drama based on a real-life murder in 80s America uses film tropes to great effect – but it plays with the facts too

Clare Brennan

10, Nov, 2024 @11:30 AM

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Summer 1954 review – Rattigan double bill packs an intellectual and emotional punch
Men struggling to hide their feelings are uncloaked in James Dacre’s astute revival of the playwright’s Table Number Seven and The Browning Version

Clare Brennan

03, Nov, 2024 @11:30 AM

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The New Real review – the spin doctors fight it out in David Edgar’s sweeping political satire
Two American strategists compete to influence an eastern European election in a nuanced new play that suffers from tackling too many subjects

Clare Brennan

27, Oct, 2024 @11:30 AM

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Becoming Nancy review – 70s-set coming-out musical radiates optimism
Terry Ronald’s true-life tale of a bullied gay teenager who prevails in the school production of Oliver! is performed with affecting verve

Clare Brennan

20, Oct, 2024 @10:30 AM

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