Ellen Kent’s rendition often struggles to deliver [the requisite] comedy. Matters threaten to disappoint when the curtain comes up on the same set that the company used for Tosca in its previous visit to Aylesbury.…
Category: Touring/Regional
Annie, Aylesbury Waterside ★★★½
Originally published on The Public Reviews Since opening on Broadway in 1977, Annie has played in several West End runs and spawned countless new productions all over the world. West Yorkshire Playhouse’s touring production uses the strapline “the world’s most popular family musical”, and it’s a piece of hyperbole with which it is hard to argue. Even…
Private Lives, Aylesbury Waterside ★★½
Originally published on The Reviews Hub. Noël Coward’s 1930 comedy Private Lives is widely regarded as one of his comic masterpieces. Starting with two divorcees discovering, to their horror, that they are honeymooning with their respective new spouses in adjoining hotel suites, Coward’s script contains plenty of smart one-liners and deft send-ups of the social mores of…
End of the Rainbow, Aylesbury Waterside ★★★★
Reviewed for The Reviews Hub. There is little doubt that Judy Garland was one of the 20th Century’s most engaging performers – or that the somewhat erratic performance style, particularly late in life, was both fuelled by, and a result of, the drug regime to which she was addicted. Starting from her early days in…
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