Alan Johns

Nabakov credited this satire by Nikolai Gogol as “the greatest play in the Russian language”.

MY first visit to Chameleons for several years and what a pleasure to see two of their brightest talents still treading the boards in the company’s fiftieth anniversary year.

Chekhov’s short play was written in 1888 and has been performed ever since.

DIRECTOR David Tatnall’s Gilbert and Sullivan productions never disappoint and the extended overture from Keziah Jacombs’ orchestra set a standard that never dropped.

PLAYWRIGHT Tim Firth takes us, via Calendar Girls and Flint Street to Camden and total Madness.

PROLIFIC playwright Harold Pinter could turn his hand to many aspects of the written and spoken word, with no small degree of success.

One end of the Green Room was appropriately dressed as a municipal football changing room.

Originally a 1955 Ealing Comedy, adapted for the stage in 2011 by Graham Linehan, best-known for his television work including The Fast Show, Father Ted, The IT Crowd and currently, Count Arthur Strong, he obviously has a way with words and the interaction between the gang of criminals taking refuge in an old woman’s house is the main thrust of the story.

My first review for this Havant company, at their excellent venue, The Spring, proved to be well worth the trip down the M27.

‘EVERYBODY’S playing the game’ is a lyric from this popular musical from Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus and Tim Rice and, on the evidence of the final night, the company played an excellent game.