Chris Bianchi and Violet Ryder in The Demon Box

  • Lullabies of Broadmoor 9 Sep 11

    The Finborough is a seriously intimate theatre, perfect for creating an immediate sense of claustrophobia, and absolutely ideal for this quartet of plays in which the audience is asked to focus on... Read More

  • Great Expectations 1 Mar 11

    it is – to my mind – a great shame that Watford Palace Theatre’s first production in several months (I exclude Aladdin) should be an adaptation. Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations is... Read More

  • Brighton Beach Memoirs 19 Feb 10

    Living in Brooklyn is tough in 1937, especially if you’re Eugene Morris Jerome – ‘almost, but not quite, 15’ – and cooped up with your extended family, facing recession and worrying about... Read More

  • Daisy Pulls It Off 22 Jan 10

    It is – shockingly – over 25 years since the original West End production of Daisy Pulls It Off. In the terminology of the ‘gels’ on stage, it was a ripping success, continuing for nearly... Read More

  • My Mother Said I Never Should 9 Oct 09

    it comes as a surprise to find that it is over 20 years since Charlotte Keatley wrote – and Brigid Larmour first directed – My Mother Said, and an even bigger surprise to see that despite its... Read More

  • He’s Behind You… 13 Dec 08

    Pantomime is a surprising amalgam of a variety of rich artistic traditions. It has its origins in the Bacchanalia of ancient Rome (when the word pantomimus referred to the performer, rather than... Read More

  • Dick Whittington & His Cat 13 Dec 08

    This year, with a clever nod to the Palace’s centenary, writer and director Joyce Branagh has chosen to set the piece exactly one hundred years ago. The story begins as our hero, young Dick... Read More

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