Friday, February 3, 2012
STAGE REVIEWTHE HURRICANE of applause which greeted the four young stars of Ventnor Theatre Group’s production of Little Women said all you needed to know about this show — it was a joy from start to finish.
Friday, January 27, 2012
STAGE REVIEWHILARIOUS from start to finish, the comical cast of Shorwell Drama Club provided a pantomime to treasure.
Friday, January 27, 2012
STAGE REVIEWWHEN I knew I would be watching the black farce, Natural Causes, at Cowes’s Trinity Theatre, I expected a classic, knowing it was penned by Eric Chappell, who created one of my all-time favourite TV comedies, Rising Damp.
Friday, January 20, 2012
STAGE REVIEWIT was the exuberance of St Lawrence Players’ younger cast members that made Mother Goose such an enjoyable production.
Friday, December 30, 2011
STAGE REVIEWTHERE WAS nothing wishey-washey about one of the Island’s biggest pantomimes of the year at Newport’s Medina Theatre.
Friday, December 30, 2011
STAGE REVIEWIT can only mean one thing when Fiona Gwinnett sports a beard and Wayne Child shows off his wardrobe of wigs.
Friday, December 30, 2011
STAGE REVIEWSINCE Alfred Lord Tenysson and Julia Margaret Cameron set up an artist’s enclave there in the 19th century, Freshwater has been a magnet for creative, flamboyant types.
Friday, December 23, 2011
STAGE REVIEWPeter Pan has flown in to cast a magic spell this Christmas.
Friday, December 16, 2011
STAGE REVIEWChristmas is a season for drunkenness, marital strife and phoniness, as Alan Ayck-bourn points out in Absurd Person Singular.
Friday, December 16, 2011
STAGE REVIEWA FULL house at Totland Church Hall was treated to a hilarious two hours of traditional panto fun with Broadway Productions’ hugely enjoyable Snow White.
Friday, December 16, 2011
STAGE REVIEWAS festive treats go, Ryde Academy did not disappoint in their production of the popular pantomime, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Friday, November 25, 2011
STAGE REVIEWThe ugliest sisters, the corniest jokes, the sparkliest fairy godmother and the worst wigs added up to another supremely absurd evening’s entertainment from the Panto Players.
Friday, November 25, 2011
STAGE REVIEWDARK material was handled with ease by students of Ryde School last week, in their production of Coram Boy, a play which combined music with the macabre to deliver a fast-paced story rich in 18th century motifs and believable characters.
Friday, November 25, 2011
STAGE REVIEWTHE secret to the success of Bembridge Little Theatre Club’s We’ll Always Have Paris was keeping it simple.
Friday, November 18, 2011
STAGE REVIEWGANG warfare, prejudice, drunkenness, sex, murder and suicide... RedTIE Theatre’s latest offering at Quay Arts had it all.