Latest articles from Jo Bayne
Ghostly tale is genuinely a scary story
IT'S a ghost story written in the gothic horror mode of the late 19th century, so it is going to be hard to make it convincing – isn’t it?
Review Educating Rita By Willy Russell Theatre Royal Bath Until Saturday June 8
WILLY Russell not only creates unforgettable characters, he also propels us on a journey with them, though their trials and tribulations and the development of their relationships.
Review: Caroline’s Kitchen, Theatre Royal Bath
PLAYWRIGHT Torben Betts is firmly in the Alan Ayckbourn and Mike Leigh school of dark humour; extracting high comedy from dysfunctional groups of human beings with misplaced aspirations and abysmal failure to connect with those closest to them.
Review: Dusty, Theatre Royal Bath
DUSTY is more than a musical celebration of one of Britain’s greatest female singing icons.
Review: Broken Wing, Wharf Theatre, Devizes
IT IS not often the Wharf can boast a world premiere. This one is not for the faint hearted or those of delicate sensibilities about man’s inhumanity to man.
Calamity Jane, Theatre Royal Bath. Until Saturday.
Versatility, originality and imaginatively economic staging are the hallmarks of any production emanating from the Watermill Theatre in Berkshire.