UK Regional Theater Reviews: Best Shows & Critic Recommendations Page 20

BWW Review: THE THREE MUSKETEERS, Lyceum, Sheffield
by Ruth Deller - October 26, 2018

Northern Ballet's take on the Three Musketeers is beautiful to watch, with a fantastic score and some delightful fight scenes....

BWW Review: MANON, Milton Keynes Theatre
by Gary Naylor - October 25, 2018

This revival of Kenneth MacMillan's Manon is a visual and aural delight that should melt the heart of even the most reluctant ballet sceptic....

BWW Review: THE WILD DUCK, Almeida Theatre
by Gary Naylor - October 24, 2018

Robert Icke's updating of The Wild Duck gains in contemporary relevance, but loses a little of its heart en route....

BWW Review: BEAUTIFUL THING, Tobacco Factory Theatres
by Kerrie Nicholson - October 21, 2018

Premiering at London's Bush Theatre in 1993, and inspiring a film adaptation three years later that became a cult classic, Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing is currently playing at Bristol's Tobacco Factory Theatres. Set on a council estate during the 1990s, it explores the relationship between Jam...

BWW Review: QUIETLY, Omnibus Theatre
by Gary Naylor - October 19, 2018

Quietly gives us two men, deep in middle age, looking back to the irreversible actions they took as 16 year-olds during The Troubles in an electrifying conversation....

BWW Review: DRACULA, Jack Studio Theatre
by Gary Naylor - October 18, 2018

Ross MacGregor's Dracula needs a transfusion of narrative pace if it is to achieve its considerable (and laudable) ambition....

BWW Review: TWELFTH NIGHT, Bristol Old Vic
by Leah Tozer - October 20, 2018

'If music be the food of love, play on'… and play Wils Wilson does with Shakespeare's chaotic, sharp-witted comedy.While wonderfully entertaining, and a comical, musical, and colourful delight, without distinct commentary on the seventies setting or a timely political parallel, this Twelfth Night is...

BWW Review: FUP: A MODERN FABLE, Nuffield Southampton Theatres
by Jo Fisher - October 16, 2018

Fup: A Modern Fable brings Jim Dodge's novel from the page and onto the stage. Adapted and directed by Simon Harvey, the tale takes place in the depths of Cornwall, at the haphazard home of a centenarian, a slightly drunken duck, and a large man called Tiny....

BWW Review: WAR WITH THE NEWTS, The Bunker Theatre
by Gary Naylor - October 11, 2018

A tremendous re-imagining of a novel that has not been more relevant at any point in the 82 years since its writing - a wonderfully realised piece of theatre....

BWW Review: MEDUSA, Nuffield Southampton Theatres
by Jo Fisher - October 11, 2018

The ancient Greek gorgon, Medusa, has been reimagined and reincarnated as a feisty and foul-mouthed rock star in a new, creative production at Nuffield Southampton Theatres....

BWW Review: YOU DON'T PAY? WE WON'T PAY!, York Theatre Royal
by Sarah Ryan - October 10, 2018

Developed in partnership with York Theatre Royal, Fo's farcical comedy follows two working class women who take advantage of a riot at a local supermarket to stock up their cupboards, and the chaos that ensues as they concoct increasingly outlandish plans to hide their crime from their straight-lace...

BWW Review: THE UNRETURNING, Nuffield Southampton Theatres
by Jo Fisher - October 10, 2018

The Unreturning follows the fallout of war through the story of three different men returning from the Front Line....

BWW Review: LOVE GENIUS AND A WALK, Drayton Arms Theatre
by Gary Naylor - October 09, 2018

There's much promise in this play that speculates on what Sigmund Freud and Gustav Mahler may have spoken about on a walk they shared, but pedestrian writing and underdeveloped characters scupper any chance of its reaching its potential....

BWW Review: TO HAVE TO SHOOT IRISHMEN, Omnibus Theatre
by Gary Naylor - October 05, 2018

To Have To Shoot Irishmen brings the tragic story of Francis Sheehy Skeffington to the stage, with music and lyricism, a reminder of Ireland's fractured past and a warning about its fragile present....

BWW Review: COCK, Minerva Theatre
by Debbie Gilpin - October 04, 2018

First performed at the Royal Court in 2009, Mike Bartlett's play Cock has been revived as part of the Chichester Festival season at the Minerva Theatre, following on from Michael Frayn's Copenhagen. Despite being written almost a decade ago, the themes of this play are arguably more relevant now tha...

BWW Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Sheffield Crucible
by Ruth Deller - October 03, 2018

A raucous take on the play-within-a-play is a real highlight of this new take on Shakespeare's tale of love and magic....

BWW Review: VERDI'S LA TRAVIATA, King's Head Theatre
by Gary Naylor - October 03, 2018

Another scaled down opera, retaining full force singing and emotional clout, from the King's Head, Violetta now a pole dancer in a sleazy Bristol nightclub....

BWW Review: THE MOUNTAINTOP, Nuffield Southampton Theatres
by Jo Fisher - October 03, 2018

Katori Hall's The Mountaintop invites us to step into the private life of Martin Luther King for one night; one that hangs suspended in time, between his achievements and his final breath....

BWW Review: JACQUES BREL: A LIFE A THOUSAND TIMES, Mirth, Marvel and Maud
by Gary Naylor - September 26, 2018

If you have never heard of Jacques Brel, this show serves as a useful introduction to his life and work, but it lacks the confident execution his songs demand....

BWW Review: BLOOD WEDDING, Omnibus Theatre
by Gary Naylor - September 21, 2018

Lorca's masterpiece transported and updated to present day London, but retaining its power to shock as it lays bare the souls of men and women....

BWW Review: STEEL, Crucible Studio, Sheffield
by Ruth Deller - September 18, 2018

Chris Bush's new play about women in the Labour party is a must-see....

BWW Review: HENRY V, Tobacco Factory Theatres, Bristol
by Leah Tozer - September 19, 2018

Like the English at Agincourt, Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory aren't unshaken, but they are victorious. Elizabeth Freestone's direction is austere, with the action playing out in a darkly industrial dystopia characterised by Lily Arnold's greyed costumes and frayed edges, steely drama and gravel...

BWW Review: TWELFTH NIGHT, Wilton's Music Hall
by Gary Naylor - September 14, 2018

A spectacular re-imaging of Shakespeare's tale of mistaken identities, cross-dressing and cruelty time-traveled to a speakeasy populated by extraordinary actor-musicians....

BWW Review: WOMEN IN POWER, Nuffield Southampton Theatres
by Jo Fisher - September 14, 2018

Opening with its world premiere at Nuffield Southampton Theatres' City venue, Women in Power gives life to a classic Greek comedy, bringing it into the twenty-first century with music, mayhem and mischevious humour....

BWW Review: HAMILTON (LEWIS) A MUSICAL PARODY, King's Head Theatre
by Gary Naylor - September 07, 2018

This version of the life of Hamilton - not that one, Hamilton (Lewis) - is a lot of fun for anyone in that crossover in the venn diagram for fans of Formula One and Musical Theatre. And, fortunately for the box office, plenty that are not....