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REVIEW: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Jimmy Made Parole
There’s a lot to like about this show, I think it just needs to be pushed a bit further up the scale. Hopefully by the time it comes to your town it will be…

Dr Zeno
Jun 102 min read


REVIEW: ⭐⭐⭐ - Verbal Diary
There’s a lot to like about this show, I think it just needs to be pushed a bit further up the scale. Hopefully by the time it comes to your town it will be…

Dr Zeno
Jun 102 min read


REVIEW: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Destination: 'Old Hag'
A première, no less. And written by its actors. An Entertainment.

Dr Zeno
Jun 10, 20242 min read


REVIEW: ⭐⭐⭐⭐- Catherine Bohart – Again, with Feelings
Saturday 9 June 2024 - The Rondo Theatre, Bath How to characterise a show in which the protagonist comedian Catherine Bohart begins and...

Kevin Gale
Jun 10, 20241 min read


REVIEW: ⭐⭐⭐⭐- Dot, The Faun, and the Elfin Child
Review of Dot, The Faun & the Elfin Child

Dr Zeno
Jun 6, 20242 min read


REVIEW: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Headmix
Saturday 1 June, The Bell A shout-out for those who were there when the then Headmix Collective played on Walcot Street 25 years ago was...

Dr Zeno
Jun 3, 20241 min read


REVIEW: ⭐⭐⭐ - Somerset Velvet
Tuesday May 28, The Grapes Looking like Fleetwood Mac circa 1975 [but get yourselves online to see their costumes at other recent events]...

Dr Zeno
May 31, 20241 min read


REVIEW: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Stone Cold Hustle
Wednesday 29 May, The Bell Inn Take-no-prisoners hard funk, mostly guitars rather than horns, tight as a disco gigolo’s trousers, and...

Dr Zeno
May 31, 20241 min read


REVIEW: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tim Arnold - Super Connected Live
Wednesday 29 May, Chapel Arts Centre Super Connected was working on us online from before the show started - not enough artists think...

Dr Zeno
May 31, 20243 min read


REVIEW⭐⭐⭐⭐- The Demeter - Boogie Nachts Theatre
Monday 27 May The Mission Theatre In Bram Stoker's celebrated fang-fest Dracula, the barmy bloodsucker leaves Transylvania and sets sail...

Steve Huggins
May 28, 20242 min read


REVIEW: **** NASTY: 'big' girls being gross, mean and sexy - Succulent Theatre
REVIEW - **** Succulent Theatre

Dr Zeno
May 27, 20242 min read


REVIEW: Celebrate Me ★★★★
The song playing as I enter the auditorium is ‘We are Family’ and it’s the perfect overture for this tale of three generations of women plus

Beccy Golding
Jun 15, 20232 min read


REVIEW: Bonnie & Clyde ★★★★★
This is a memorable slick production of an ambitious show... going out with a highly-appropriate bang.

Steve Huggins
Jun 13, 20233 min read


REVIEW: Luke De-Sciscio ★★★★
The intimacy he has with his crowd is a joy to see... Luke's devotees will hold this one in their hearts for a while.

Dr Zeno
Jun 12, 20233 min read


REVIEW: Raising Kane ★★★★★
David Shopland gives a startling performance as Welles, fully capturing his swagger, arrogance and self-sabotaging insecurities

Steve Huggins
Jun 8, 20232 min read


REVIEW: Will Duggan: Iceberg ★★★
Will Duggan is angry but he’s not sure why. Like a buckaroo ready to buck, he may appear calm on the surface but underneath he’s simmering w

Beccy Golding
Jun 5, 20233 min read


REVIEW: The Crowd Creativity Show ★★★★
What matters in the end is the generous and celebratory message of the show - we are all artists and together we can make beautiful art. If

Beccy Golding
Jun 1, 20233 min read


REVIEW: A Shining Intimacy ★★★★
Tobacco Factory Theatres The fond reminiscences and grief of a lost friendship are tender, the stumbles are charming, the silly jokes are...

Beccy Golding
May 10, 20232 min read


REVIEW: Be. ★★★ 1/2
Cardboard boxes, beige and ochre backdrops and gender-neutral clothing which drapes and tucks into different shapes and fits – this producti

Beccy Golding
Jul 12, 20223 min read


REVIEW: MANIC ★★★★
Raina Greifer’s astonishing moments of word play, startling metaphor and poetic story telling drip and drop throughout, into the dark shadow

Beccy Golding
Jun 27, 20223 min read
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