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Dining theatre is back! Actually it has been back for a while and back in August 2021 Mulan Rouge was the trendsetter. After Covid are theatre goers ready to be in close proximity to each other? After a strong first run in summer 2021 ShayShay’s Mulan Rouge takes the classic Disney film (I found out…

A man lies in a coma for 15 years. It becomes clear that his partner and child have left him for a life in Australia and are only now returning to Birmingham where he is cared for by his rich but lonely sister. Lost in Blue is a play about connections – real and imagined,…

One thing that I have really, really missed over the last two years is just good plain fun. Fun without meaning, without agenda without malice. This is what Viper Squad has in spades. Yes, you still wear a mask – the pandemic isn’t actually fully over despite governmental wishful thinking. But you also dress in…

Review by Jake Laverde According to that great philosopher Beyonce, it’s girls who run the world. And in this latest production from duo Thick ‘n Fast, we see how that scenario plays out when Cassie Symes and Georgina Thomas are plucked out of obscurity to rule the world. From the start, both Symes and Thomas…

F Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby was first published nearly 100 years ago yet it still continues to inspire modern adaptations and interpretations. Here, we see Daisy Buchannan (Jodie Steele) return to New York seven years after the events of the book and tell her story to Speakeasy owner (and former friend of Gatsby) Woolfe (Robert…

Designing an immersive experience for an audience as obsessive as Doctor Who fans would seem almost completely impossible. Designing an immersive experience that works for both Doctor Who fans and fans of immersive theatre is more impossible still. Designing one that works both for casual viewers of Who and the ultra-obsessives: the ultimate in impossible…