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East Anglia arts and ents

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

Full city festival programme unveiled

‘Dramedy’ takes an unusual look at dealing with grief

A Song At Twilight
Drama Reviews

A Song At Twilight

April 9, 2019July 17, 2019

Part way through the first half of A Song At Twilight, the hotel waiter brings in some champagne.

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Faustus
Drama Reviews

Faustus

March 29, 2019July 17, 2019

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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Ivo Graham
Comedy Reviews

Ivo Graham

March 29, 2019July 17, 2019

It’s unlikely that the name Philip Hollobone will ever elicit such a large cheer as the one it received at the opening of the second half of Ivo Graham’s Norwich gig.

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Rough Crossing
Comedy Drama Reviews

Rough Crossing

March 26, 2019July 17, 2019

Funnier things happen at sea in this frothy and fast comedy from one of our best-regarded living playwrights.

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Paper Cinema's Macbeth
Drama Puppetry Reviews

Macbeth

March 13, 2019May 18, 2025

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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Orlando
Drama Reviews

Orlando

March 7, 2019July 17, 2019

This stunning 90-minute monologue rescues Virginia Woolf’s tale from the stale confines of gender studies and treats it for what it is: a bloody good yarn.

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Miles Jupp
Drama Reviews

The Life I Lead

March 2, 2019July 17, 2019

In the afterglow of the recent film sequel to Mary Poppins, this new one-hander play is a gloriously British evening of gentle and poignant comedy.

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The 39 Steps
Comedy Drama Reviews

The 39 Steps

February 16, 2019July 17, 2019

This stupendously silly spy thriller is a delight from start to finish.

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Ed Gamble
Comedy Reviews

Ed Gamble

January 25, 2019July 17, 2019

Opening the first night of his tour with a two-day stint at Norwich Playhouse, Ed Gamble explains his show’s title is influenced by an incident last January when he and three other comics got stranded in New York because of heavy snow.

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Russian State Ballet of Sibera
Dance Reviews

Cinderella

January 17, 2019July 17, 2019

There has been a drastic evolution in the Russian State Ballet of Siberia’s touring performances.

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Diary Of A Nobody
Drama Reviews

Diary Of A Nobody

November 22, 2018July 21, 2019

It’s not quite pantomime season, but this pacey and curious production has the warmth, absurdity, and frequent cross-dressing to almost qualify for that dubious label.

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Macbeth
Drama Reviews

Macbeth

October 31, 2018July 17, 2019

Macbeth was one of the first plays I saw as a child, and apparently so enticed me that I nearly climbed inside the witches’ cauldron.

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Cirkopolis
Circus Reviews

Cirkopolis

October 14, 2018July 17, 2019

A bleak and oppressive world of work gives way to playfulness, humour, and some intense acrobatics in this stylish take on a circus show.

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The Sorcerer
Musical Reviews

Trial by Jury and The Sorcerer

September 25, 2018July 25, 2019

The National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company brought a radical re-working of two of the duos earliest pieces to Norwich on September 21 – well, radical if you count a lesbian couple, a Tommy Cooper homage, and a Love Island joke thrown into the libretto as radical.

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Comedy Reviews

Sara Pascoe

September 18, 2018July 18, 2023

Even allowing for irony, Ladsladslads is perhaps the most unrepresentative name Sara Pascoe could have come up with for her tour.

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