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1. Intimate Exchanges: The Self-Improving Woman
Get Bracknell, Friday 16 April 2010Alan Ayckbourn is without doubt a national treasure and this play is one of his usual concoctions: funny, clever, moving and funny.
2. The Pillowman – Progress Theatre – 21/5/10
Get Bracknell, Monday 24 May 2010The play opens in an interview room of a police station in an unnamed Eastern European-esque totalitarian state where a blindfolded subject is sitting in silence.
3. Review: The Ash Girl at Progress Theatre
Get Bracknell, Thursday 13 January 2011Usually over the New Year the Progress Theatre put on a children’s show – never quite as crass as a pantomime, but usually something jolly and entertaining and family friendly.
4. Big Big Comedy Bash, Hexagon, 28/2/10
Get Bracknell, Thursday 25 February 2010This is an annual fixture in Reading’s entertainment calendar and a rather good fixture it is too.
5. Porridge – Hexagon – 26/3/10
Get Bracknell, Monday 29 March 2010Although this stage version of the perennial prison sitcom of the 70s is written by the original writing duo of Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
6. The Real Science of the Circus at South Street
Get Bracknell, Friday 09 April 2010If Johnny Ball had been a world class juggler and street entertainer as well as being a particularly fine science communicator then he might’ve come up with a show like this one.
7. Nothing To Declare – South Street
Get Bracknell, Saturday 10 April 2010This evening’s show, performed by the Reading Youth Theatre, is one of a handful of performances before it heads up to Edinburgh for the Fringe in August, and from the looks of it they’re already pretty well prepared for the big run.
8. My Mother Told Me Not To Stare
Get Bracknell, Monday 12 April 2010It’s a real pleasure to see a show aimed at children that is neither simple or easy; that isn’t a spin-off from a TV show or cartoon or staging of a popular book.
9. Titanic The Musical
Get Bracknell, Thursday 05 June 2008Initially this may seem an odd topic for musical theatre to attempt, but in fact it fits neatly into the series of works Stephen Sondheim created.
10. Review: Kiss Me, Kate
Get Bracknell, Wednesday 23 April 2008If there’s one thing Cole Porter could be trusted to do, that was to write great tune after great tune and, from the very outset, Kiss Me, Kate is filled with them.
