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By Ferenc Hepp The “world’s worst opera singer” is is a sobriquet unlikely to be sought, but this was the unfortunate description given to the amateur soprano, Florence Foster Jenkins.…
May 6, 2026 / No Comment / Read More
By Barbara Ford Macbeth, presented by three northern English companies in collaboration, is a thrilling, physical and updated version of one of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies. Channelling Rupert Goold’s magisterial…
April 25, 2026 / No Comment / Read More
By Ferenc Hepp The Woman In Black, an all-time classic drawing audiences of all ages, is running at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre this week at the tail end of its…
April 15, 2026 / No Comment / Read More
By Alice Fowler ‘It’s built for us, isn’t it? The Spitfire. Built for women.’ So declares Dotty (Hannah Morrison), the younger of two sisters at the heart of Spitfire Girls,…
March 25, 2026 / No Comment / Read More
By Ferenc Hepp Migration and asylum seekers are rarely far from the headlines, so it is good to see the subject covered dramatically in The Beekeeper of Aleppo which, this week,…
March 19, 2026 / No Comment / Read More
By Isabelle Trubshaw Like many detective stories, this production follows a familiar U-curve of mystery – opening with intrigue, dipping into confusion, and ultimately arriving at a dramatic resolution –…
March 12, 2026 / No Comment / Read More
By Isabelle Trubshaw A picture is only as complete as the imagination that sees it. That is the message that I took from Robin Simpson’s 90-minute performance of Catherine Dyson’s…
March 10, 2026 / No Comment / Read More
By Isabelle Trubshaw With daffodils in bloom and bird song in the air, it can only mean one thing: Guildford Shakespeare Company’s Spring Season is just around the corner –…
March 4, 2026 / No Comment / Read More
By Ferenc Hepp Kenneth Williams would have been 100 on the February 22 this year. David Benson was 13 in 1975. Jackanory aired its final episode in 1996. There is…
March 3, 2026 / No Comment / Read More
By Isabelle Trubshaw The Holocaust is perhaps the epitome of man’s inhumanity to man. It happened less than a century ago, so there is no excuse that they did not…
March 2, 2026 / No Comment / Read More
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