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Sewell Barn announces new season

Auschwitz poetry mixes with music in unique event

Nature reserve to host quirky mystery play

Our picks of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival

Outer space theatre concert to premiere in Norwich

From Edinburgh with love

Charley's Aunt at Sewell Barn Theatre - Photo: Andrew Evans
Reviews

Charley’s Aunt

July 10, 2025July 10, 2025

Two sets of young lovers get caught up in an elaborate pretence in this 130-year old farce that – pre-decimal currency references asides – mostly holds up to modern scrutiny.

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Promotional image for Coriolanus at Sewell Barn Theatre
News

Sewell Barn announces new season

July 6, 2025July 6, 2025

From Shakespeare to South London council estate, Norwich’s Sewell Barn Theatre has announced its new programme of plays.

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Gertrud Kolmar
News

Auschwitz poetry mixes with music in unique event

July 5, 2025July 6, 2025

The work of a poet who perished after being transported to Auschwitz inspires a unique event of music this autumn.

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Lewis Aves as Jean Valjean in Les Misérables - Photo: Richard Jarmy
Musical Reviews

Les Misérables – Let the People Sing

July 3, 2025July 3, 2025

The story of punishment, redemption, and rebellion has become a worldwide phenomenon since its debut in Paris in 1980, and this week’s run in Norwich shows why.

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Passing by Ballet BC - Photo: Tristram Kenton
Dance Reviews

Ballet BC

June 10, 2025June 11, 2025

An imposing group of hooded figures clamber from the auditorium on to the stage in the first of this double bill of performances by Ballet BC.

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Edgeland - Photo courtesy Norwich Theatre
Drama Performance Reviews

Edgeland

May 30, 2025

A nature walk and an unsolved disappearance collide in this mystical and mysterious new production set and performed on the edge of the city centre.

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John Dawson and Gavin Bromley in Foxfinder - Photo: Barry Parsons
Drama Reviews

Foxfinder

May 29, 2025May 29, 2025

A strange and disturbing dystopian world unfurls in this gripping and unsettling thriller.

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Elf Lyons: Horses - image courtesy Norwich Theatre
Comedy Reviews

Elf Lyons: Horses

May 24, 2025May 24, 2025

In the stand-up set that follows her main show, Elf Lyons tells of the confusion of an Australian stag do that attended Horses on the basis of a horny mis-hearing of its name.

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Ella Frears - Photo courtesy Norfolk and Norwich Festival
Poetry Reviews

Ella Frears

May 22, 2025May 22, 2025

I have a new poetry crush, and her name is Ella Frears.

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Alex McAleer - Photo courtesy Norfolk and Norwich Festival
Magic Reviews

Alex McAleer: Mind Reader

May 22, 2025May 22, 2025

Pity poor audience member Kai: he tried his best to outfox Alex McAleer, but he never stood a chance.

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Dance Reviews

Songs of the Bulbul

May 21, 2025May 21, 2025

This new dance work offers a mesmerising combination of movement and myth, inspired by the ancient Sufi story of a nightingale held in captivity.

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Rachel Long - Photo: Amaal Said
Poetry Reviews

Rachel Long

May 21, 2025May 21, 2025

There was a moment before Rachel Long’s penultimate poem that she took a beat, and you could almost hear the calculation being made: should I do this one?

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Rachael Gillespie in Northern Ballet's Jane Eyre - Photo: Tristram Kenton
Dance Reviews

Jane Eyre

May 21, 2025May 21, 2025

The delight is in the detail in this stirring and emotional ballet adaptation of Brontë’s Jane Eyre.

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The Paper Cinema - Photo courtesy Norfolk and Norwich Festival
Performance Puppetry Reviews

Rock Charmer and Night Flyer

May 18, 2025May 18, 2025

Two mysterious and surreal stories are captivatingly told in this double-header performance by The Paper Cinema at Norwich Puppet Theatre.

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Cards and headphones on a cafe table
Reviews

Vincent Gambini: Close-Up

May 17, 2025May 17, 2025

This is perfect: from start to finish Vincent Gambini’s Close-Up one-on-one show is a extravagantly simple slice of, well, magic.

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