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AMATEUR THEATRE REVIEWS
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Tales From Ovid, Stage2 Youth Theatre. The Creascent
Theatre, Birmingham
The Heartless Princess, Highbury Theatre Centre
Educating Rita, The
Nonentities, The Rose Theatre, Kidderminster
The End of History, Hall Green Little Theatre
Tom's Midnight Garden, Sutton Arts Theatre
The Girl on the Train, The Grange Playhouse, Walsall
Last Tango and The Fat Lady Sings In Little Grimley, Swan
Theatre Amateur Company, Worcester
Little Wars, Highbury Theatre Centre
The Unexpected Guest, Hall Green Little Theatre
The Father, Highbury Theatre Centre
The Incident Room, The Nonentities, The Rose Theatre,
Kidderminster
Waiting for Waiting for Godot Sutton Arts Theatre
Medea, Loft Theatre, Leamington Spa
Bazaar and Rummage, Hall Green Lottle Theatre
The Turn of the Screw, The Nonentities, The Rose Theatre,
Kidderminster
Home, I'm Darling , Highbury Theatre Centre
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Grange Playhouse
A Christmas Carol: A Fairytale, Criterion Theatre, Coventry
Nativity! The Musical, Sutton Arts Theatre
Rumpelstiltskin, Hall Green Little Theatre
Glorious! The Loft Theatre, Leamington
Notes from a small Island, Highbury Theatre Centre
A Tomb With a View, The Nonentities, The Rose Theatre,
Kidderminster
Class, Grange Players, Grange Playhouse, Walsall
Copenhagen, The Nonentities, The Rose Theatre, Kidderminster
Uncle Vanya, Loft Theatre, Leamington
Wait Until Dark, Sutton Arts Theatre
Top Girls, Swan Theatre Amateur Company, Worcester
Strictly Murder, Hall Green Little Theatre
Sheila's Island, Highbury Theatre Centre
Mosquitoes, The Loft Theatre, Leamington Spa
Educating Rita, The Grange Playhouse, Walsall
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Sutton Arts Theatre
The King's Speech, Highbury Theatre Centre
Home, I'm Darling, The Nonentities, The Rose Theatre,
Kidderminster
Kindly Leave The Stage, Hall Green Little Theatre
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Stage2, The Crescent Theatre
Dangerous Obsession, Grange Playhouse
Bonnie & Clyde , Sutton Arts Theatre
The Good Life, The Nonentities, The Rose Theatre,
Kidderminster
Clouds, Hall Green Little Theatre
London Suite, Highbury Theatre Centre
The Government Inspector, The Loft Theatre, Leamington Spa
How to Date a Feminist, Highbury Theatre Centre
Black Coffee, The Nonentities, The Rose Theatre,
Kidderminster.
Tom’s Midnight Garden, Hall Green Little Theatre
The Late Marilyn Monroe, Sutton Arts Theatre (v)
A Bunch of Amateurs, Highbury Theatre Centre
The Maid’s Metamorphosis,
Edward's Boys, Stratford-upon-Avon
The Velveteen Rabbit, Hall Green Youth Theatre
Waiting for Waiting for Godot, The Nonentities, The Rose
Theatre, Kidderminster
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