Theatre Magazine Critic's Choice

Janice Okoh & Egusi Soup

Janice Okoh looks like she could be the latest thing on the block. Local in the wider sense of the word – she grew up in South-East London, where her latest play is set – and graduated from UEA in 2008 with a...

Barefoot in the Park

As director Maureen Lipman’s voice-over reminds us before the show, Barefoot in the Park is set before the invention of mobile phones, but as she points out elsewhere, the situation that unfolds could be taking pla...

Questions of Freedom

Cambridgeshire born writer and award-winning film-maker Rick Limentani has brought his new play Freedom to Cambridge’s Mumford Theatre. Having completed a four-week run at the Arcola Theatre in London earlier this ...

Playing out Scott's legend

In recent times Cambridge has seen a fair flurry of events to mark the centenary of Scott’s last expedition to the South Pole; the most recent, a production of Ted Tally’s play Terra Nova, staged at the ADC t...

Yes Prime Minister

If government is a risky business, then so is an updating of a much-loved national institution. ‘Yes Minister’ was a gold-plated comedy in a golden age of sitcom. The scheming, eminence-grise figure of...

Autumn Ghost Stories

Sunny spring mornings aren’t the usual time to dwell on the macabre, but there must be many people in Cambridgeshire for whom the first frost of autumn brings with it an additional thrill – the start of a new...