Category: reviews
The Last Five Years – Opens tonight, runs until Saturday!
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The dress rehearsal of The Last Five Years last night was thoroughly well-received by the small audience that attended to support the cast. We’ve had some terrific comments, including two full, Facebook-based reviews. Here are just some of the snippets: “What a truly wonderful production” – “a beautifully nuanced piece […]
NODA review of Once Upon a Christmas Song
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Performance: Saturday, 4th December 2021 Review by: Richard Fitt Arriving at Sharnbrook Mill Theatre after a heavy day, and already having done a pantomime in the afternoon, we were slightly jaded and praying we had enough energy to last the show without nodding off. We needn’t have worried. By the […]
NODA review of Duets
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Performance: 22nd October 2021 Review by: Richard Fitt Oh Yes! What a pleasure to be back in front of a real actors, performing real live theatre in front of a real paying audience! Apart from the presentation of the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service ceremony I attended back in September, […]
NODA review of Daisy Pulls It Off
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Performance: 5th March 2020 Review by: Richard Fitt Well that was certainly different! But first the plot. Written by Denise Deegan, based on Winifred Norling’s 1939 novel The Testing of Tansy and set in the 1920’s, the story centres around Daisy Meredith, a girl from a poor background who wins […]
NODA review of The Railway Children
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Performance: 29th November 2019 Review by: Ian Worsfold I was very excited to be invited to review this show as for many years I have heard great things about this unique theatre but to date had never been to see a show here. I’m pleased to report that the venue […]
NODA review of Entertaining Angels
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Performance: 9th September 2019 Review by Richard Fitt First of all, my apologies: I always think it unfair to review a production on the opening night and normally I avoid doing so, but on this occasion circumstances left me little choice. Entertaining Angels is a 2006 play by Richard Everett, […]
NODA review of Wait Until Dark
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Performance: 16th March 2019 Review by Richard Fitt I have to admit my ignorance, I wasn’t even aware that there was a stage play of Frederick Knott’s classic, having only ever seen the excellent 1967 film version staring Audrey Hepburn, so my interest was immediately aroused by this with its […]
NODA review of Avenue Q
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Performance: 8th November Review by Richard Fitt For those who have not seen this wonderful show (yes I’m a huge fan) by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx we follow the fortunes of Princeton, who arrives in New York without any money looking for his ‘purpose’ in life and somewhere to […]
NODA review of The Crucible
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Performance: 20th September 2018 Review by Richard Fitt This is, of course, one of the great critically acclaimed plays of the 20th century by one of its greatest playwrights, depicting the Salem witch trials at the end of the 17th Century whilst parodying the McCarthy Communist witch hunts of the […]
NODA review of Spamalot
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by Richard Fitt at a performance on 8th June 2018 I have to admit this is a show that has been on my bucket list for quite a while and which for various reasons I have not managed to see before. All I knew about it, apart from of course […]