24 April 2023 4**** Two middle-aged men meet up via the gay dating app, Grindr, and realise they are old school friends who shared a deep love of the Swedish pop group Abba. They decide to form a tribute band with them playing the women and two females playing the men. Such is the outline […]
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15 April 2023 3*** ‘KINDLE’ by Hattie Collins takes on some big subject matters; global energy, renewables, death, mental health, family relationships, debt, fossil fuels….. the list goes on. Angela runs a remote petrol station which is in financial difficulty. Her daughters, Holly and Heather are polar opposites in views and lifestyle and have a
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5 April 2023 2** Marie Antoinette has been celebrated in many forms since the departure of her head; theatre, film and stage have elevated her to something akin to a cult figure. Thus ‘Cake’ provides a further slice of this historical icon but uses a different kind of recipe. In the ‘blurb’ for the show,
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4 April 2023 4**** High Schools and Teenage Angst are fertile ground for writers of books, plays, films and musicals. Take ‘Grease’ or ‘Spring Awakening’, for instance, which both deal with growing pains in rather more contrasting styles. The 1988 film ‘Heathers’ falls into this category, but writer Daniel Waters definitely took things into the
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