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- Jan Chandler
Combine English History and Shakespeare with the acting talents and obvious passion of John Stanton and be ready to experience both history and language as living, breathing people.
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- Dr Daniela Kaleva
The audience followed text and musical narrative with fervour. Even the darkest moments were transported to the sublime.
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- Penelope Broadbent
Everynight, Everynight reminds its audience that unlike their weekly feeding of dramatised crime on television, the theatre offers no glass screen to separate the audience from the action.
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- Stephanie Glickman
Set in a cockroach-infested Berlin apartment in the middle of winter, three men are, literally, climbing the walls.
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- Stephanie Glickman
A highly technical post-modern dance vocabulary underpins the choreography and each offering has its own unique mood and motivation.
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- Simonne Michelle-Wells
Untrained, a new work by choreographer Lucy Guerin and part of the first Dance Massive, is a wholly satisfying theatre experience.
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- Stephanie Glickman
An intimate performance conceived by Helen Herbertson and Ben Cobham, it is an extraordinary and immersive experience for an audience of only and exactly twelve people
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