StageTalk Magazine

Review: WERE YOU YOU ANYONE BEFORE DAD'S ARMY? at The Mission Theatre, Bath A portrait of a Dad's Army favourite's courageous, often defiant, tilt at the vicissitudes of an actor's life. ★★★☆☆ ift.tt/7FmfZOK

Review: TWO HALVES OF GUINNESS at The Ustinov Studio, Bath Will be greatly enjoyed by those with fond memories of a glittering career. ★★★★☆ ift.tt/N9kLUpO @UstinovStudio

Review: MEET FRED at The Weston Studio, Bristol Old Vic Witty, touching and disturbing it is a show which is much more than a sum of its parts. ★★★★☆ ift.tt/Bc0fZPn @BristolOldVic

Review; Doris (The Girl Next Door?) The famous Doris Day numbers are performed with obvious relish and joy ift.tt/fB8x6OW @AlmaBristol

Review; SINGLE WHITE FEMALE at Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham Sharing a flat can be murder… ★★★☆☆ ift.tt/2rOnQ0j @EverymanChelt

ALL THE HAPPY THINGS at The Weston Studio, Bristol Old Vic A sincere, well-acted portrait of grief and the persistence of sisterhood. ★★★★☆ ift.tt/IK0T8Dy @BristolOldVic

Review: IN HYSTERICS at The Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol ....always has a spoon full of comedy sugar ready to help the tough stuff go down. ★★★★☆ ift.tt/goL9QGd @WardrobeTheatre

Operation Mincemeat at Theatre Royal, Bath A quintessentially British musical comedy. ift.tt/iDmtNXZ @TheatreRBath

Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at Bristol Old Vic A brilliantly attuned cast oozing self-confidence and sharpness in delivery. ★★★★★ ift.tt/QxFtwgI @BristolOldVic

Review: 1984 at North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford Although this production fails to live up to expectations it does have energy and pace ★★☆☆☆ ift.tt/URCXzNk @TheNorthWall

Review: A GRAIN OF SAND at The Weston Studio, Bristol Old Vic This is no angry polemic, but a sensitive, realistic account of how a young girl reacts to the blatant inhumanity of war. ★★★★☆ ift.tt/NfVrtqe @BristolOldVic

Review: Days Of Significance at The Station, BS1 2AG In turns comic, shocking, tragic and, eventually, hopeful, it is blessed with superb performances from its young cast. ★★★★☆ ift.tt/qfBT0kL @BOVTS

Review; MIDSOMER MURDERS: The Killings At Badger's Drift, Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham Cosy crime gets a comic makeover ★★★★☆ ift.tt/p0dPvDI @EverymanChelt

Review: MACBETH at Tobacco Factory Theatres A modern dress world where the supernatural seems woven into the here and now. ★★★☆☆ ift.tt/M3VKIpm @tftheatres

Review: CREEPY BOYS: SLUGS at The Wardrobe Theatre An hour of feral chaos, tightly and knowingly built. ★★★★☆ ift.tt/h2uA7jO @WardrobeTheatre

Review; WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF at Oxford Playhouse Theatre It is a monumental work and an anguished plea to all of us to face the truth about ourselves ★★★★☆ ift.tt/3eb0pix @OxfordPlayhouse

Review: ORPHEUS DISMEMBERED at The Ustinov Studio, Bath Theatre Royal A tour de force of storytelling that vividly creates the deeply strange and utterly amoral world of the Greek gods. ★★★★☆ ift.tt/L3iSyB1 @UstinovStudio

Review: THE LAST PICTURE SHOW at The Weston Studio,Bristol Old Vic A rigorous and quietly unsettling meditation on witnessing. ★★★★☆ ift.tt/zs5oaT3 @BristolOldVic

Review; DEAD ON CUE at Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham The time is most definitely out of joint in this creepily clever, one-man ghost story ★★★★☆ ift.tt/Nrok7AW @EverymanChelt

Review: LIFE BEFORE YOU at Ustinov Studio, Bath Theatre Royal A fierce and intimate excavation of what mothers pass on, and what daughters try to outrun. ★★★★☆ ift.tt/kfBhPjE @UstinovStudio