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Blackadder Goes Forth – REVIEW

31 Oct 201816 Jun 2021
People's Theatre, Newcastle There can’t be many of us who aren’t familiar with this iconic BBC series, and this week The People’s give a pretty good rendition of four of…
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Sense and Sensibility – REVIEW

26 Oct 201816 Jun 2021
Chapterhouse Theatre Company's latest production is this classic Jane Austen novel, adapted for the stage by resident writer Laura Turner. This charming adaptation is a testament to her love of…
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Natural Causes – REVIEW

26 Oct 201816 Jun 2021
This month's offering from the Royalty Theatre is a dark comedy by Eric Chappell, who most people will know as the writer of sit-coms such as Rising Damp, Only When…
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The Blue Electric Wind – 4 stars

21 Oct 201816 Jun 2021
People's Theatre, Newcastle. The Blue Electric Wind is a new piece of writing, by ex-Royal Court Young Writer Brad Birch, commissioned by the National Theatre’s literary department specifically for young…
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Breaking the Code – 5 stars

21 Oct 201816 Jun 2021
People's Theatre, Newcastle. Hugh Whitemore’s play about the brilliant mathematician Alan Turing - key player in the breaking of the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park during World War II…
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Go Back For Murder – 3 stars

21 Oct 201816 Jun 2021
People's Theatre, Newcastle. After having watched the 1980 film of ‘The Mirror Crack’d’ just the other night, I was very much in the mood for more Agatha Christie and was…
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Hi-de-Hi! – 3 stars

21 Oct 201816 Jun 2021
People's Theatre, Newcastle. Stage adaptations of popular classic television comedies are ten a penny these days - understandably so in the current climate of aiming to get as many bums…
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Richard III – 3 stars

21 Oct 201816 Jun 2021
People's Theatre, Newcastle. Taking on a play such as this is always ambitious, but the People’s have the talent and the resources and here they pull it off pretty well.…
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Dance Across The Tyne – 4 stars

21 Oct 201816 Jun 2021
Customs House, South Shields. After the huge success of last year’s award-winning Dance To Your Daddy, writer-composer team David Cooke and Grahame Wright had a lot to live up to…
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The Fifteen Streets – 3 stars

21 Oct 201816 Jun 2021
People's Theatre, Newcastle. Published in 1952, The Fifteen Streets was Catherine Cookson’s second book. The story came to her very quickly and completely: “Within an hour I had the whole…
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And A Nightingale Sang – 5 stars

21 Oct 201821 Oct 2018
Less in MORE theatre company, Middlesbrough Theatre. Glasgow-born playwright CP Taylor had a long-standing relationship with Live Theatre in Newcastle, with many of his plays first performed there. ‘And A…
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Yes Prime Minister – 3 stars

21 Oct 201821 Oct 2018
People's Theatre, Newcastle. The original BBC series’ ‘Yes, Minister’ and ‘Yes, Prime Minister’ are widely considered as genuine comedy classics, and so a brand new up-to-date stage version was greatly…
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Much Ado About Nothing – 5 stars

21 Oct 201821 Oct 2018
People's Theatre, Newcastle. In his programme notes, director Tony Childs writes: “It's easy to see how Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's best loved comedies”, and The People's…
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The Next Train To Depart – 4 stars

21 Oct 201821 Oct 2018
Live Theatre, Newcastle. John Challis's poetic play about a chance meeting on a railway concourse between a call centre worker and a would-be poet is the first of three Bitesize…
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Charley’s Aunt – 3 stars

21 Oct 201821 Oct 2018
People's Theatre, Newcastle. This classic 1892 farce by Brandon Thomas broke all records when it was first produced, running in London for four years (1,466 performances) and making a star…

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2021 Shows

2020 Shows

  • Sunday For Sammy 2020
  • Catherine Cookson’s The Cinder Path 2020
  • Penshaw Bowl
  • Big Science
  • Sunday For Sammy – Taalkin’ Heeds
  • Rottenchops Revenge

2019 Shows

  • Catherine Cookson’s The Cinder Path 2019
  • Grin Up North – BBC LIVE comedy recording
  • Right Place Wrong Time
  • Alnwick Gardens Halloween Event 2019
  • Aladdin

2018 Shows

  • Sunday For Sammy 2018
  • Cornered – the Replay!
  • Rehearsed Reading Night V
  • The Butcher’s Bill
  • Rehearsed Reading Night VI
  • My Uncle Freddie
  • Rehearsed Reading Night VII
  • Seriously Dead 2018
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

2017 Shows

  • Paul & Nessa’s Happy Hour
  • Seriously Dead 2017
  • Wise Men Say / Cornered
  • Robinson Crusoe

2016 Shows

  • Sunday For Sammy
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • Hamlet
  • The Big Goodbye
  • Henry V
  • Seriously Dead
  • Jack and the Beanstalk

2015 Shows

  • Valentine Laffalang 2015
  • Catherine Cookson’s The Cinder Path
  • Paul & Nessa’s Happy Hour
  • Laurel and Hardy In Tynemouth
  • Easter Laffalang 2015
  • Waiting For Gateaux
  • Cinderella

2014 Shows

  • Victorian Music Hall
  • Rehearsed Reading Night III – Cranked Anvil
  • Arts In Touch rehearsed reading
  • Dracula: Die Laughing
  • Catherine Cookson’s The 15 Streets
  • Summer Laffalang
  • I Left My Heart In Roker Park by Tom Kelly
  • Xmas laffalang
  • Aladdin

2013 Shows

  • The Big Time
  • Dark Side of the Half Moon
  • Cinderella
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