3*** 30 July 2021 There is no doubt that the musical SIX has become something of a phenomenon. In front of a packed audience at the Theatre Royal Plymouth – the first non-socially distanced audience there for many months – there is whooping and cheering before the curtain rises. Although I have knowledge of the […]
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4**** 22 July 2021 French farce can trace its origins back many centuries and there are overlapping elements with the theatre form known as Commedia Dell’Arte. Ludicrous situations, stock characters and helter-skelter action are all symbolic of the genre. In the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, the writer Georges Feydeau was the master of the farce
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3*** 9 July 2021 I suspect there are very few people under the age of 50 who would have heard of Francis Durbridge or, indeed, seen or heard much of his work. In the 1950’s and 1960’s he must have been one of the most prolific writers for TV and radio. He turned more to
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