Simon Ward reviews Two Cities…Half the World Away at the Old Red Lion Theatre Nicky Allt is a Liverpool-born playwright who has written often about the cultural and sociological significance of football. This hilarious and heart-warming play is no exception. Directed by Callum O’Brien it places two diehard […]
Simon Ward reviews Ghost Stories For Christmas at the Old Red Lion Theatre Writer and performer Matthew Wood founded Edwyrdian Tales as a response to lockdown in 2020, to provide an online version of the show that he had been bringing to heritage sites such as the Tower […]
Abigail Bryant reviews Tiny Dynamite at Old Red Lion Theatre Bringing Abi Morgan’s Tiny Dynamite to the stage for the first time in 15 years, Time Productions have injected an ethereal and immersive ambiance to a beautifully complex play that deals with chance, regret, grief and friendship among other […]
Abigail Bryant reviews One Last Thing (for now) at the Old Red Lion Romantic love in a wartime setting is no new territory for the arts, with infinite pages of literature and poetry inspired by the extremities of the human condition in this context. Althea Theatre has created […]
To mark the centenary of Arthur Miller’s birth, Sean Turner and the Old Red Lion will present the World Premiere of the until now long-lost first play of one of America’s greatest dramatists and political icons. Over six days during spring break 1936 at the University of Michigan, […]
Peter Hamilton’s Playground is billed as a murder mystery set in a fragmented, broken society. Supposedly, it follows an investigation into the decapitation of several small children, all of which are found with an Enid Blyton novel laid open on their murdered bodies. In reality, the premise of this gruesome story is […]
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