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Friday, May 16, 2008
STAGE REVIEW
IOLANTHE is one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s most ridiculous, fanciful operettas and the Island Savoyards caught its lighthearted nuances well.
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Friday, May 9, 2008
STAGE REVIEW
VENTNOR Theatre Group’s presentation of Buddy, the all-singing, all-dancing biopic of rock ’n’ roll legend Buddy Holly, opened at the Winter Gardens last week.
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Friday, May 2, 2008
STAGE REVIEW
A HEALTHY suspicion of authority, a satirical poke at religious hypocrisy and the use of a corpse as a card table — all the elements of Joe Orton’s black comedy, Loot, were present and correct in this offering from the Cowes Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society (CAODS).
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Friday, May 2, 2008
STAGE REVIEW
CURTAIN Up Amateur Dramatic Society pulled out all the stops to put on a memorable night of songs, colour and dance.
A cast of around 30 performers starred in the musical Funny Girl, which told the moving love story of Fanny Brice and her rise to fame on Broadway.
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Friday, May 2, 2008
STAGE REVIEW
CHORUS Of Disapproval, by the Ad Lib Theatre Company, was an ambitious production, particularly as there were extra songs added, some of which appeared to have had words written especially for the occasion.
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Friday, April 25, 2008
STAGE REVIEW
IF you like black comedy and more bodies than you can shake a stick at, try Arsenic And Old Lace, as performed by The Pepperpot Players.
The show opened last Friday at Whitwell Village Hall and has its final performance at...
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Friday, April 18, 2008
STAGE REVIEWS
MYSTERY and suspense was the order of the day at An Inspector Calls, performed by Ventnor Theatre Group.
Director Bill King chose simple scenery and a theatre-in-the-round style to bring out the very best in this drama in the dining room.
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Friday, April 11, 2008
STAGE REVIEW
THE Apollo Players’ 36th season continues with a new production of Alan Ayckbourn’s comic farce, Relatively Speaking, and last week’s opening night was nothing less than ...
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Friday, April 11, 2008
STAGE REVIEW
A GRUESOME tale of greed, deceit and murder came to Quay Arts on Saturday when the Goat and Monkey theatre company staged a thrilling dark fairytale, The Juniper Tree.
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Friday, April 11, 2008
STAGE REVIEW
SEVENTEEN-year-old Charlotte Cantelo was a revelation in the role of Mickey, in Carisbrooke High School’s production of Willy Russell’s tragic tale of twins separated at birth, Blood Brothers....
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