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Billy Liar: Chesil Theatre, Winchester

2:33pm Wednesday 28th July 2010

Billy Fisher is a young Yorkshireman living at home with his parents and grandmother. He fights the boredom of his humdrum existence as an undertaker’s clerk by constant daydreaming and flights of fancy, a seamless mix of reality and fantasy to him, downright lying to his family and three girlfriends...

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Two – Southsea Shakespeare Actors

2:50pm Tuesday 20th July 2010

A cosy pub should be the ideal setting for an evening of the most intimate and powerful theatre that is Two – an excellently written comic drama about an embittered pub landlord and his wife intertwined with snapshots of their customers’ lives.

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Canterbury Tales – Lyndhurst Drama and Musical Society

2:46pm Tuesday 20th July 2010

Dave Hollis’s adaptation of five of Chaucer’s tales, set in the courtyard of the Tabard Inn, cunningly uses the pilgrims and the people of the inn to act as characters in the stories.

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Footloose – Performing Arts Company

2:49pm Tuesday 20th July 2010

A TALE of a small town in the US where dancing is banned and the rebellious outsider who brings change for good, Footloose is an exuberant experience with some lively, foot-tapping tunes and quite a lot of dancing.

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The Servant of Two Masters – The Maskers Theatre Company

2:48pm Tuesday 20th July 2010

A cunning servant lands himself two jobs. However, pleasing two masters is complex for the mischievous Truffaldino – the first master is a lady disguised as her brother, searching Venice for her long-lost lover, who just happens to be the second master. Juggling his duties and trying not to get rumbled, Truffaldino is caught in a hilarious whirlwind of mishaps, chaos and confusion.

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Bugsy Malone – Debut Youth Theatre

2:47pm Tuesday 20th July 2010

Debut Youth Theatre’s fun production featured nicely timed slapstick comedy and the use of splurge guns and custard pies.

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Macbeth – Bench Theatre, Spring Arts Centre, Havant

2:18pm Saturday 17th July 2010

Shakespeare’s “quote-a-minute” tale of vaulting ambition brought low, while producing some stunning moments of creative theatre, was nevertheless a partial victim of its very ambition.

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Twelfth Night Peter Symonds English Literature Dept

8:32am Tuesday 13th July 2010

Peter Symonds’ outdoor Shakespeare production always produces pleasant surprises, and in this year’s 1920s-set production it was |a delight to hear particularly well-spoken verse and enjoy strong characterisation, all to the accompaniment of a terrific nine-piece jazz band.

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