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PREVIEW: From iconic handshake to Queer bathtime singing – it’s all yours

Brian Butler June 29, 2022

Brian Butler previews another range of shows for your delight, from iconic handshake to Queer bathtime singing – it’s all yours

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REVIEW: Educating Rita @ Devonshire Park Theatre

February 18, 2020

Educating Rita Devonshire Park Theatre by Willy Russel I’d seen the play in the 90’s and loved it, the film is an acknowledged classic of British Cinema. If you don’t know the plot, it followes working class Liverpudlian and married hairdresser Rita enrolling on an Open University course led by lecturer Frank to expand her […]

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REVIEW: Avenue Q @ Devonshire Park Theatre

October 29, 2019

It’s certainly fun and done with gusto, the puppeting is superb and the puppeteers quickly fading off and giving the puppets full empathic reign. The singing is great, with two or three stand out performances, ‘There’s a thin line’, which closes the first act is utterly American musical dreamy.

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REVIEW: Me and the Girls @The Devonshire Theatre Eastbourne

Brian Butler September 19, 2019

Me and the Girls is a paradox – a ‘new’ Noel Coward play. It is in fact a clever musical adaptation of a short story which the Master wrote on holiday in Jamaica, and published in 1962.

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