21 stories by "Ben Sharratt"
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich: Peter Rowe and Ben Goddard have concocted a heart-warming theatrical treat about a 25-year university reunion in a cottage in the middle of Wales, featuring some…
Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh: Director Mark Sterling first helped to produce this comic thriller as a student at Manchester University in the 1970s, with the late Rik Mayall as Holmes. This emoti…
St Edmund's Hall, Southwold: More than 30 years since it became the longest-running thriller on Broadway, Ira Levin's play within a play still packs an evil punch. The force of that pun…
Theatre in the Forest, Jimmy's Farm, Suffolk: The atmospheric venue, radical set and costumes and funky musical interludes ensure that this production of The Comedy of Errors makes a favoura…
Needham Market Community Centre, Suffolk: Less than four years after its first staging by Eastern Angles, Segun Lee-French's semi-autobiographical tale of a family reunion and the resul…
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich: Martina Laird was nominated for Best Actress at the Evening Standard Awards when this production, with its themes of hard life and tough love in Trinidad, ran at…
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich: No glorified red coats, no questionable celebs, no cheese - three reasons a New Wolsey pantomime succeeds like few others. Another is the magical alchemy cooked …
Fram Theatre, Framlingham: With an uber-thesp vocal delivery that hilariously tiptoes the line between celebrating and lampooning the art form, Julian Harries is compulsive viewing (and list…
Sir John Mills Theatre, Ipswich: By transplanting the Bronte sisters to a rotten borough on the Suffolk coast, Eastern Angles subjects an audience eager for spoof and send-up to a laborious …
St Edmund's Hall, Southwold: While time has done few favours to the flavour of this sauce - what passed for cheeky chappy-ness in the 1960s feels more like tardy sleaziness these days - Coon…
Jimmy's Farm, Ipswich: Red Rose Chain's Theatre in the Forest series gives The Taming of the Shrew a fresh air injection of brilliantly crafted buffoonery.
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St Edmund's Hall, Southwold: In the opening scene of JB Priestley's razor sharp dissection of upper middle class insensibilities, some odd staging sees factory owner's son Eric Bir…
New Wolsey, Ipswich: A sure-fire way of minimising the suspense in a thriller is to give the actors too many lines and too much back story to impart. By the end of the first act of the prodi…
Sir John Mills Theatre, Ipswich: The knack of delivering a punchline or visual gag with unadulterated glee as if it is the first time it has ever been performed is a rare thing indeed. Altho…
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich: There's a moment in Sleeping Beauty, as we await the grand entrance of evil witch Morgana (Karen Mann), where the actor/musicians take a break from belting …
New Wolsey, Ipswich: That curious yoof culture spat between mods and rockers in the 1960s is the pleasingly compatible setting for a musical update of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergera…
Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh: Tapping into the cultural appetite for vampirism and coinciding with the 100th anniversary of Bram Stoker's death, Suffolk Summer Theatre presents what, by and …
Theatre in the Forest, Rendlesham Forest: It was what happened off, almost as much as what happened on stage that made this performance of King Lear so watchable. The setting, in a forest cl…
St Edmund's Hall, Southwold: At the heart of this play is a neatly constructed mystery penned by Frederick Knott, of Dial M For Murder fame. In the hands of the newly-formed Suffolk Summer T…
Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh, February 15: This is the first Eastern Angles production written by Ivan Cutting which he does not also direct. Instead, Naomi Jones is at the helm for Private Resis…
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich: Back for a second run at the New Wolsey, and with the economic climate now so similar to that of the late 70s when Ian Dury and The Blockheads were in their char…
