AMATEUR REVIEWS
A-Z Index of affiliate
reviews
Reviews listed by
affiliates
Edith in The Dark, Hall
Green Little Theatre
The Dixie Swim Club,The Grange
Players, The Grange Playhouse, Walsall
Yes, Prime Minister,
Swan
Theatre Amateur Company
Much Ado About Nothing,
The
Nonentities, The Rose Theatre, Kidderminster
Barefoot in the Park,
Highbury
Theatre Centre
The Invisible Man,
Hall Green
Little Theatre
Absurd Person Singular,
Sutton
Arts Theatre
Chase me Up Farndale Avenue, S’il Vous Plait,
The Nonentities, The Rose Theatre, Kidderminster
Blackthorn,
Highbury Theatre
Centre
Confusions,
Grange Players,
Grange Playhouse, Walsall
The Wizard of Oz,
Sutton Arts
Theatre
Jack and The Beanstalk,
Hall
Green Little Theatre
The Railway Children,
The
Nonentities, The Rose Theatre, Kidderminster.
The Christmas Elves,
Mint
Theatre Society
Directory of leading amateur companies.
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DARK THOUGHTS
With theatres closed and dark,
reviewers turn their thoughts to things theatrical
The £1.57bn
Government funding is a welcome boost to the Arts but many of
the problems facing the cultural sector still remain. The cash
is much needed help but is not a cure.
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The Arts from bands in small venues to grand opera and
symphony orchestras is in trouble. Theatres will remain closed,
companies will fold, all consumed by coronavirus without a
financial lifeline from the Government.
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The Scottish Play and other mysteries of the
superstitions of theatre explored . . . carefully . . .
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Theatres have always provided a welcome home for ghosts
as Roger Clarke finds out
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Jeff Grant looks back on a meeting with the Prince of
Darkness.
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LATEST REVIEWS
Rooms Rambert and Birmingham Hippodrome
Jabala and The Jinn, online from Coventry Belgrade.
The Color Purple on-line, filmed at co-producers
Curve, Leicester.
The Nutcracker, Birmingham Royal Ballet - online at
Birmingham Rep
The Little Mermaid, Derby Theatre - online
Jack and the Beanstalk - online Coventry Belgrade
Lazuli Sky, BRB, Birmingham Rep.
Talking Heads, Malvern Theatres
Dr Faustus, Malvern Theatres
Romeo and Juliet, Paperback Theatre Company, Little
but LIVE festival, Moseley Park.
Mooney and his caravans: Malvern Theatres
The Swan, Céline Gittens,
Birmingham Royal Ballet.
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Coming soon
The Albany in Coventry is back - or at least it aims to
be with a stunning piece of Fringe Theatre from the highly
regarded Proforca Theatre Company on Sunday 30 May.
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Single Shoe Productions and Derby Theatre have a free
Zoom workshop on Saturday (6 March)highlighting the #TakeUsThere
series from Lockdown Mk 1.
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Birmingham Royal Ballet's celebrated Sir
Peter Wright production of The Nutcracker might have fallen
victim to Covid but you can't keep a good ballet down and it has
been moved online to be enjoyed by ballet fans and families
around the world with a live stream from Birmingham Rep on 18
December and then pay per view to Christmas Eve.
More
Women & Theatre's film exploring the lives and experiences of
more than 40 women in Birmingham and the Black Country during
Lockdown Mark 1 has its world premiere on YouTube for free this
weekend. More
Birmingham Royal Ballet is showing Christmas spirit in
the COVID gloom by bringing an adapted version of their
wonderful festive favourite The Nutcracker to Birmingham Rep in
December.
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Cinderella is set to have a ball next year with Sir
David Bintley's celebrated Birmingham Royal Ballet version set
to open the new season on 31 March, but Cinders won't be missing
out on a traditional Christmas ball as she takes to the stage in
panto in a socially distanced Nottingham Playhouse from 27
November.
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Birmingham Hippodrome will be staging the UK premiere of
the world's most visited multi-media exhibition next month
exploring the world of an artistic genius with Van Gogh Alive.
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Live theatre returns to
Malvern for the first time in six months
with two of its own production, Mooney and his Caravans and
Talking Heads and a new one-man Doctor Faustus opening next
month. More
Hit Musical Once
was heading to
the Midlands on its first major UK tour, it may not arrive for
some while but The Alexandra
Theatre has shared a video of its stars singing a new recording
of Falling Slowly.
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Birmingham Hippodrome is helping to give emerging talent
a helping hand with live streams of TEDxYouth@Brum and UniSlam
this month. More
Birmingham Royal Ballet has appointed Ballet Master and
former Principal Dancer
Dominic Antonucci as its new Assistant Director.
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Elmhurst Ballet School ends a tumultuous year and its
Principal, Jessica Wheeler talks about the problems faced by her
and her staff protecting and teaching pupils form around the
world.
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Birmingham Royal Ballet's Marion Tait is to step down as
assistant director at the end of the year.
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Midland Theatres given a share of the Government's £1.57
billion Culture Recovery Fund
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Live theatre has returned to the Midlands for the first
time since March with Mooney and his caravans at Malvern
Theatres so what was it like?.
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Stan's Cafe head into the world of call centres
from living rooms and back bedrooms in For Quality Purposes,
online
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Rosie Kay's Dance Company was to perform again at the
Edinburgh Festival but with the festival forced to move on-line
the Birmingham company will be joining up again with
Army@TheFringe for a first
streaming of 10 Soldiers on 12 August.
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Theatre and the arts
facing financial meltdown with the
prospect of theatre and venue closures and even orchestras
folding without Government help.
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Wolverhampton Grand
has been awarded an Arts Council
grant to assist in its community programmes
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Colin Townsend, a dear friend and stalwart of amateur
theatre in Sutton Coldfield has died of COVID-19.
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Elmhurst Ballet School sixth former Lydia
Brayshaw has started her own fashion business and has opened
with a fire sale with a difference, in aid of the bush fire
affected animals of Australia
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FEATURES
Raising a glass, or
five, to Elmhurst Ballet School in
the cause of helping to fund the ballet and dance stars
of tomorrow.
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