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Why the Dickens?
24th May 2025
by David Vass
I’m surely not the only person who hadn't heard of Willian Macready before Mark Stratford's performance, let alone appreciate his contribution to theatre as we know it. Stratford's masterly one man show took his audience… read more
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keeping abreast of ignorance with Open Space
16th May 2025
by David Vass
Given Arthur Miller's impressive body of work and the reputation it earned him, it’s easy to forget that All My Sons was effectively the last roll of the dice after a string of undistinguished attempts… read more
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have we eaten on the insane root?
11th May 2025
by David Vass
It's been a little over a year since the You’re Bard company last visited the Corn Hall. On that occasion, A Midsummer Night’s Dream was given a mauling and I ended up on stage pretending to… read more
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The play's the thing
10th May 2025
by David Vass
Written and performed by Mark Carey, Dead on Cue is a ghost story set in the dressing room of a London theatre where Sir Claude Mason is performing in Hamlet, the twist being we see… read more
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Ain't I a Woman?
2nd May 2025
by David Vass
The springboard for AIAW.org productions’ portmanteau presentation is Sojourner Truth's ground breaking speech, delivered in the seventeenth century having walked away, to use her words, from a life of slavery. Her rhetorical question, Ain't I… read more
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Sophia - A Princess, A Socialite, and a Suffragette
6th Apr 2025
by David Vass
Sophia Duleep Singh was the daughter of the deposed Maharaja of the Sikh Empire and God daughter to Queen Victoria, who nevertheless reconnected with her Punjabi heritage on a transformative trip to India. The play… read more
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Play
23rd Mar 2025
by David Vass
There was a time when Kubrick's comic masterpiece felt like a relic of the Cold War. How easy it was, only a few years ago, to chuckle knowingly at a film that satirised the folly… read more
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Give them enough Rope
17th Mar 2025
by David Vass
Although Rope is probably best known as Hitchcock's audacious, single-take experiment, it was originally a stage play that the famous director took liberties with, not least relocating the action to New York. The original play… read more
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A Class Act from Russell Lucas
15th Mar 2025
by David Vass
The Titanic sank to the bottom of the ocean over a hundred years ago, and yet remains the subject of endless fascination. Books, films, documentaries, conspiracy theories and even a musical have all contributed towards… read more
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A Feast of East Anglian Drama
14th Mar 2025
by David Vass
Some of the finest productions staged at the Corn Hall have come from The Feast Theatre Company, so I had high hopes for Tales from the Motherland, not least as it has been written by… read more
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