“If you prick us, do we not bleed?” famously asks Shylock in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. The question for Propeller’s abridged version of that play is slightly different: if you strip out two-thirds of the text, is it still the same play?
Explore MoreA dog found dead in a garden just after midnight might not sound the most auspicious start to a play, but this is no ordinary adventure.
Explore MoreDrones sweep overhead, orders are barked from speakers, and fires
burn all around: so opens the ambitious, dystopian finale of this year’s
Norfolk and Norwich Festival.
There’s a special belly laugh reserved for watching things go horribly wrong – and this show has belly laugh moments in spades.
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The brutal ordinariness of mass murder is the challenging topic of this play, which charts the strange relationship that builds up between nine-year-old German boy Bruno and his young Jewish friend Shmuel, the two seemingly so similar – except for the concentration camp fence that separates them.
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For more than a decade Karl Minns has kept Norfolk entertained as part of the Nimmo Twins, but his new solo show is a very different beast.
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Young people just want to have fun: that might be a slightly simplistic version of the message behind Cush Jumbo’s The Accordion Shop.
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With questions about cash for access ringing in our ears, the latest production at Norwich’s Theatre Royal puts a dangerous proposition: there might be honour in politics.
Explore MoreFrom even before she starts speaking, Lucy Ellinson captures your attention in this impressive solo performance.
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Downton is in financial crisis and there is only one way to save it: though depending on which of Luke Kempner’s many faces you listen to that may be baking, a musical, game show appearances, or marrying an Olympic swimmer.
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A stag night prank gone wrong is the starting point for this daring and successful murder mystery – and there are plenty of twists and turns before the end.
Explore MoreChristmas Eve and lots of creatures are stirring, as the
Feddington players battle through a chaotic and emotional radio production of
Dickens’s Christmas Carol.
The recently exhumed and re-buried body of Richard III, together with the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, has given new topicality to this particularly bloodthirsty Bard’s play.
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Can we unsee unthinkable horrors? Does detachment make us less human?
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Kings are used to being centre stage but Shakespeare’s Henry IV never really gets that chance – and this RSC production of Part I of the Bard’s epic tale doesn’t upset that.
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