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More Magical Mind Reading
9th Nov 2025
by David Vass
Right from the outset, Alex McAleer made it clear that he wasn't a psychic with supernatural powers. His powers come from hours of practice and learnt techniques, but in many ways are no less impressive.… read more
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Hair raising magic from the Great Baldini
1st Nov 2025
by David Vass
I can honestly say I've waited years for the Great Baldini to visit Diss - he knows why - and his show at the Corn Hall certainly delivered on the promise of jolly, knockabout fun… read more
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Bona polari from Apollo Theatre
25th Oct 2025
by David Vass
In the mid to late sixties television was starting to dominate home entertainment. Around the Horne, far from being part of the so-called swinging sixties, was effectively the last hurrah for radio comedy. To modern… read more
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High Tide offers even more frights
14th Oct 2025
by David Vass
Last year, I was fortunate enough to attend the second iteration of HighTide's trio of supernatural tales at the spookily evocative Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds, so I came to this third outing with… read more
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A company that Grows with every performance
11th Oct 2025
by David Vass
Adapting a nineteenth-century novella about wallpaper for the stage might seem an odd choice of source material, but that would be to reckon without the considerable talent of the author Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow… read more
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The Tales Common Ground Told
8th Oct 2025
by David Vass
With Common Ground Theatre, you get one of two things – a frequently earnest and invariably erudite adaptation of a classic or an utterly bonkers mash up of myth, legend and slapstick comedy. I can… read more
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Mark Stratford has nowhere to Hyde
17th Jul 2025
by David Vass
It was a return trip to Diss for Mark Stratford, who earlier in the year had impressed the Corn Hall audience with his show about Macready, the actor manager who arguably invented modern theatre. This… read more
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Eh Oh
16th Jul 2025
by David Vass
Whether you grew up watching them, or sat mystified as your child was entranced, or simply shook your head in bewilderment that the days of Pogles Wood and Ivor the Engine had long gone, its… read more
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Helen Anker captures the Essence of Audrey
12th Jul 2025
by David Vass
Having just been charmed by Helen Anker’s performance in The Essence of Audrey I’m trying to work out whether I’ve been beguiled by the performer or the character she played. Perhaps it’s a combination of… read more
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A Year and a Day to Remember
20th Jun 2025
by David Vass
Christopher Sainton-Clark first appears on an otherwise empty stage and then immediately breaks the fourth wall to explain that he going to tell us the story of his death. Given that he was standing in… read more
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