SPOTLIGHT ON: Three musicals and four world premieres at Chichester
Brian Butler takes a look at Chichester’s new season
Noel Coward
REVIEW: Private Lives @ Theatre Royal
A period delight, executed with humour and panache and certainly one for Cowards fans or anyone interested in a certain type of arch, camp dialogue driven relationship comedies with a delicious vicious core.
BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: The World by Mark Inscoe
Brian Butler raises a glass to Mark Inscoe’ s great Coward/Porter show
PREVIEW: ‘Trouser-wearing characters’ by Rose Collis
Trouser-Wearing Characters by Rose Collis is the first ever musical cabaret show written and performed by a British female author. This original entertainment, written and performed by local Sussex’s favourite Rose Collis, is a unique mixture of music, history and comedy.
THEATRE REVIEW: Present Laughter
The full audience found it a very comfortable treat indeed and perfect evening entertainment after the long weekend that is Pride, I certainly agree with the latter.
REVIEW: Private Lives: Theatre Royal, Brighton
Noël Coward’s play is a gossamer thin confection about love and life amongst the beautiful and fabulously wealthy. Tom Attenborough’s production somehow manages to make heavy work of one of the lightest pieces in the theatrical canon. Despite some fine performances, lines that should sparkle like th
PREVIEW: Hay Fever at NVT
Gerry McCrudden’s production of Noel Coward’s Hay Fever opens at the NVT Theatre Upstairs on Friday, October 31 and runs until Saturday, November 8. Noel Coward self-deprecatingly said of his delicious comedy “it has no plot at all, and remarkably little action.” Despite his protestations it is cons