It is always wonderful to get home after a holiday however great the trip. One feels the need to be British again! To come home, slightly jet lagged as I did to a triple bill of Coward at the wonderful Nomads theatre was particularly sweet. His writing sparkles with wit and humour and some very [...]
Three short comic plays for the price of one ticket!
A top notch cast perform a wonderful trio of classic Coward comedies which encompass vaudeville, social satire, physical humour and pastiche.
Here is wit, music and fun.‘
Tonight at 8.30 is a cycle of ten one act plays which were originally played over three evenings. Not all of [...]
Laughter does something special to people and we laughed a LOT through the Friday evening performance of Cranford. Mrs Gaskell has a brilliant way of making us look at ourselves and for our rejection of people for ”bad• manners. In the case of Mr Holbrook, having eaten peas from a knife was never again acceptable [...]
Production Dates: 17 - 21 May - at 8.00pm
Inhabited mainly by the fairer sex, the community of Cranford thrives on mutual support and gossip. The sheltered peace of gentility is threatened by financial disaster, imagined burglaries and the ever present intricacies of social etiquette that dominates daily life.
Made popular by the BBC’s adaptation, the non-stop [...]
Reviews of Splendour
Studio Theatre
April 2010
Directed by Ian Nichols
Playwright Abi Morgan explains that, in Splendour, she is ‘trying to make sense of something that is overwhelming, trying to meet people on the other side of a big experience’. All she does, though, is to leave the audience thinking that she is still seeking [...]
In an idle five minutes recently I worked out that Splendour is my thirty seventh production as director. This is only evidence of two things: I’ve been around a long time; and experience doesn’t teach you everything. Despite pantos (three), Shakespeare’s (eleven), my own adaptations (five) etc and having worked from the squalor of Edinburgh [...]
‘Splendour’ is a gripping play about decadence and dictatorship. Kathryn, a photo- journalist arrives at a european dictator’s house to photograph him. She is accompanied by her interpreter Gilma. The dictator is not there as he is dealing with an uprising. They are welcomed by Michelaine, the dictator’s wife and her friend Genevieve. Trapped inside [...]
I managed to grab a couple of minutes with the director of The Government Inspector, Ian Nichols. Sorry about the quality of the video we only had a very short about of time available. As well as talking about the production Ian also talks about how he became a director and advise for anyone wanting [...]
