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Category Archive: Drama

Marlowe Players stage a players play

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Watching a play on a balmy evening may not be to everyone’s taste – but the Marlowe Players […]

July 19, 2019 Drama, Uncategorized

Departure Lounge at Derby Theatre has bumper line-up

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Departure Lounge is a summer festival of fresh and thrilling contemporary theatre with a bumper line-up of innovative […]

June 26, 2019 Comedy, Drama

Smash-hit comedy lead the autumn season

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The main house production for the autumn at Derby Theatre is Richard Bean’s smash-hit comedy, One Man, Two […]

June 23, 2019 Drama, Theatre

Review: Charley’s Aunt, Chatsworth Players

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The cornerstone of the Brandon Thomas comedy Charley’s Aunt is the actor playing the title character – if […]

June 20, 2019 Comedy, Drama, Reviews

Ashbourne Festival kicks off with Street Fest

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Ashbourne is promising us 17 days of non-stop entertainment during its annual festival from June 21-July 7. As […]

June 17, 2019 Ceramics, Circus, Comedy, Dance, Drama, Festivals, Literature, Music, Photography, Sculpture, talks, Visual Art

Eagle Awards 2019 nominations announced

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The wealth of amateur theatre talent in Derby, and surrounding towns and villages, will be celebrated once again […]

June 13, 2019 Drama, Music, Musicals, Uncategorized

Theatre group stages musical to mark Refugee Week

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Derbyshire based Ava Hunt Theatre, brings to the stage a new musical using the true story of internationally […]

June 13, 2019 Drama

New drama will celebrate Florence Nightingale

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Belper Arts Festival may have only just finished for 2019 but plans are already under way for 2020. […]

June 8, 2019 Drama, Festivals

Review: Short Play Festival, Little Theatre, Belper

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A rustic upstairs bar room, gentle fairy lights and heavy rain set a cosy scene to entice the […]

June 3, 2019 Drama, Reviews

Review: Oliver, Buxton Opera House

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Since Paul Kerryson became CEO at Buxton Opera House late in 2016 he has made it a priority […]

May 27, 2019 Drama, Reviews

Review: Ayckbourn’s Living Together by Quarndon ADS

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When Alan Ayckbourn wrote his trilogy – The Norman Conquests – in the early 1970s it is said […]

May 18, 2019 Drama, Reviews

Review: Romeo and Juliet, Captive Audience

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Quite how the young Captive Audience cast remembered all their lines for their latest production Romeo and Juliet […]

May 16, 2019 Drama, Festivals, Reviews

Derby university students stage Orwell’s 1984

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For two dates only this month, Derby Theatre’s Artistic Director, Sarah Brigham will co-direct a stage adaptation of […]

May 13, 2019 Drama

Romeo and Juliet is last show for Larry

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Shakespeare’s classic love story is brought to new life by a young cast of Larry Waller’s Captive Audience […]

May 10, 2019 Drama

Troupe to bring city’s horrible history to life

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Derby Cathedral Quarter Business Improvement District (BID) will stage its first CQ Saturdays free street entertainment event of […]

May 9, 2019 Drama

Buxton Drama League stage Bedroom Farce

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This weekend Buxton Drama League return to the Pavilion Arts Centre with Alan Ayckbourn’s hilarious comedy, Bedroom Farce. […]

May 9, 2019 Drama

Kev Fegan: playwright and poet

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Identifying what makes a community tick and helping the people express themselves artistically is what motivates playwright and […]

May 2, 2019 Drama

Students write about Little Ed Fringe Festival

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Artsbeat has agreed to print a selection of articles written by students studying magazine writing at the University […]

May 1, 2019 Drama, Festivals, Folk, Jazz, Literature, Music, Poetry, Rock/Pop

Turn of the Screw drama on stage at Derby

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It is 1840. A young governess agrees to look after two orphaned children in Bly, a seemingly idyllic […]

April 29, 2019 Drama

Peak dance and theatre school celebrates 30th birthday

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Peak Performance Dance and Theatre School is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2019. Principal Jill Ferguson says she […]

April 12, 2019 Dance, Drama

Review: Road by Belper Players

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Jim Cartwright’s Road could so easily have been written about Austerity Britain. The inequality and hopelessness of Thatcher’s […]

April 11, 2019 Drama

Review: The Jungle Book, Derby Theatre

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The Jungle Book is a superb example of Derby Theatre’s ability to create shows that appeal to children […]

April 10, 2019 Drama, Music, Musicals, Reviews

Repton School saves the day

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The Good Companions Stage Society, which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year very nearly found themselves with nowhere […]

April 9, 2019 Drama, Music, Musicals

Fame coming to Long Eaton

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Fame The Musical is a stage show full of breathtaking singing and dazzling dancing. It is a bittersweet, […]

April 5, 2019 Drama, Music, Musicals

Moxie Brawl re-write the History of Ireland at Déda

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Looking at the stereotypes from leprechauns and nuns, to Michael Flatley’s mother, nothing is left unsaid as Moxie […]

April 3, 2019 Comedy, Dance, Drama, Folk, Music

Author sees play performed by Marlowe Players

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Author Derek Webb attended a Marlowe Players’ performance of his play The Lady Vanishes at Darley Abbey – […]

April 1, 2019 Drama

Biggest festival yet for Belper

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Belper Arts Festival is preparing the biggest festival to date with over 1,000 participants – many of them […]

March 16, 2019 Comedy, Dance, Drama, Exhibitions, Festivals, Film, Literature, Music, Photography, Sculpture, Storytelling, Workshops

Derby Theatre to stage Remains of the Day

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A Nobel Prize winner in 2017, Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, Remains of the Day, is a story for anyone […]

March 15, 2019 Drama

The Devil’s Violin bring Stolen to Taddington

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A young woman goes missing. The search for her uncovers secrets which threaten to destroy her family…. The […]

March 14, 2019 Drama, Music, Storytelling

Marlowe Players stage Hitchcock thriller

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The Marlowe Players are to present one of their most challenging productions since they moved to Darley Abbey […]

March 12, 2019 Drama

Review: What Fatima Did. . ., Derby Theatre

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Why would a confident, party-loving Muslim teenager, who likes nothing more than a drink and smoke with her […]

February 28, 2019 Drama, Theatre

Story of Pendle witch trials told at village halls

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The Wonderful Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster by Dawn State is an intimate and spellbinding […]

February 20, 2019 Drama

Shifting Sands update classic for Bakewell

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The Mayor is in a cold sweat. News has reached him of an imminent investigation by a high-ranking […]

February 19, 2019 Drama

Bittersweet story of love and jealousy takes to Derby stage

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Set in Manchester, Oldham and London, My Mother Said I Never Should is a poignant, bittersweet story about […]

February 18, 2019 Drama

Review: Bloody Mary, St Peter’s Church, Belper

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Treachery, corruption, rebellion, betrayal and death  – the life of Mary Tudor could never be described as dull. […]

February 10, 2019 Drama

Review: Noughts and Crosses, Derby Theatre

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The poignant political novel Noughts and Crosses is more than just another Romeo and Juliet parable – it […]

February 6, 2019 Drama, Theatre

Review: Pizza Shop Heroes, Derby Theatre Studio

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Before the four refugee actors in Pizza Shop Heroes began telling their stories the house rules were light-heartedly […]

February 4, 2019 Drama

Derby Theatre steps in to save Present Company musical

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When Present Company was told last week that months of painstaking preparations and rehearsals for the world premiere […]

February 1, 2019 Drama

Pizza Shop Heroes tickets selling fast

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As I sat down to write this feature on New Year’s Eve the lead item on the 3pm […]

January 24, 2019 Drama

Caroline’s Kitchen on stage at Derby

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Caroline Mortimer is the nation’s favourite TV cook. In the glow of the studio lights, she has it […]

January 6, 2019 Comedy, Drama

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