Pros: Excellent performers, ingenious design and impeccable direction. Cons: The period setting is sometimes confused. The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare’s earliest works and certainly his shortest. Significantly influenced by Plautus’ Latin comedy Menaechmi, it is the story of two pairs of twins who fall victim to a series of mishaps related to their ambiguous identity. Egeon (Paul Croft) is a merchant from Syracuse who heads to Ephesus in search of one of his twin sons, lost twenty-five ...

A valiant effort on this take of Shakespeare’s thriller that intensely scares but falls short emotionally.

This is a stunning production but at over 3.5 hours long, and in such a hot theatre, it was difficult to stay engaged throughout.

A unique take on Shakespeare; for all its many faults,  it's still well worth exploring this and this company’s upcoming productions.

A good production that is easy to follow and laugh along with. It’s in need of tidying up in places, but there are good performances from most of the cast.

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The Merchant of Venice is a thrillingly tangible production full of community spirit.

This understated production lacks depth, passion and dramatisation; with disappointingly dull and disconnected performances.

An exciting, modern-day take on Shakespeare's political drama that's particularly pertinent just before the Mayoral election.

Pros: An incredible Hamlet, internally desperate and silently anguished, and a claustrophobic and unnerving atmosphere Cons: Heavy abridgement, and slightly hammed up Ophelia and Gertrude. Back to the Park Theatre, and back to Hamlet, this time abridged and renamed Hamlet, Who’s There? Fresh productions of this most over-performed tragedy do beg the question ‘what’s new about it?’ Too often the answer is not enough. Putting on Hamlet is always tricky, admittedly, and to truly do it justice the audience has to ...