This stylish production of the classic Hitchcock film runs fine until it hits a dramatic moment – and then it gets derailed and the tension vanishes.
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Despite a mafia-themed opening this
production of Shakespeare’s comedy owes more stylistically to a Hitchcock
thriller than the Godfather.
The rise and fall of Norfolk’s railways – or rather the people that used them – are at the heart of this charming community theatre piece.
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For a television show that has achieved cult status and is famed for its audience asides, revisiting its stage roots as a one-woman monologue was always going to feel a bit strange – even if delivered via a cinema screen.
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This double-bill of new shows from
Norwich-based theatre company Laughing Mirror could not have been more
contrasting.
Miller’s classic tragedy of lust and betrayal is given a bold and confident reworking in this stylish Maddermarket production.
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The superficially wispy plot of this Noel Coward play hides a darkly comic and sharp take on ageing and the lives we live.
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Love drives people to strange actions in this accomplished performance, at the Maddermarket Theatre, of a rarely seen Agatha Christie adaptation.
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This show did not have an auspicious start – six performers milling around the stage, sharing in-jokes and nattering away – but appearances can be deceptive.
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All is not what it seems in this glamorous and enchanting show, that offers a gentle and lulling mix of humour and beauty.
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There can be a risk that period pieces wrenched from their context lose their power. That isn’t the case with W Somerset Maugham’s For Services Rendered.
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Part way through the first half of A Song At Twilight, the hotel waiter brings in some champagne.
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This is the story of a man who wants everything, and is willing to sell his soul to the devil to get it – and it’s a production that has high ambitions too.
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Funnier things happen at sea in this frothy and fast comedy from one of our best-regarded living playwrights.
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With Storm Gareth raging outside, there wasn’t much need for simulated wind and rain to open this oppressive and claustrophobic version of Macbeth, but still it came.
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