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Kerbs

Posted on 7th March 2022

by Lizz Brain

Dating with disabilities in a new comedy on tour Every so often comes a play which just keeps popping back into your thinking space. Not because...

Engaging with Picard!

Posted on 24th February 2022

by Lizz Brain

As a new series of Picard launches, I head back 15 years to Patrick Stewart in a Shakespearean tragedy. Resistance is futile. "Being a good captain of...

Private Peaceful is anything but

Posted on 22nd February 2022

by Lizz Brain

Horrors of war pack a punch in this Morpurgo adaptation Daniel Rainford & Daniel Boyd in Private Peaceful - Feb 2022 © Nottingham Playhouse (Photo Manuel...

No Game of Thrones here!

Posted on 15th February 2022

by Lizz Brain

Photo above by Peter Coombs, (C) RSC 2004. From graveyard digger to master fencer...

Palace of Varieties

Posted on 10th February 2022

by Lizz Brain

Where working men's club meets Westminster and politics meet parody. “Society shouldn’t be a marketplace for buying and selling people like commodities, it should...

Matthew Rhys

Posted on 9th February 2022

by Lizz Brain

The American - when he was still Welsh SO just who is Matthew Rhys? He hit the spotlight being seduced by Kathleen Turner eight times a...

Pride & Prejudice, Curve Theatre Leicester - Lizz Brain

Pride and Prejudice

Posted on 16th December 2016

by Lizz Brain

Five years ago Matthew Kelly made his Curve debut as the cantankerous patriarch in a dark play about family secrets. Now he’s preparing to return...

Rufus Hound – One Man, Two Guvnors

Posted on 20th September 2016

by Lizz Brain

Smash hit award-winning comedy is on its way to Leicester – with a tiptop comedian in the lead role. Lizz Brain catches up with Rufus...

Of Mice and Men

Posted on 23rd May 2016

by Lizz Brain

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men is almost as old as one of the stars of its latest tour, and just as politically astute, writes...