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September 17, 2017 Susan Elkin

Dangerous Daughters (Susan Elkin reviews)

Premiered in 2010 by the MTA’s inaugural intake, Dangerous Daughters (writer Nick Stimson, composed Annemarie Lewis Thomas) is a show which has...

September 17, 2017 Susan Elkin

The State of Things (Susan Elkin reviews)

Seven comprehensive school students are preparing their GCSE music performance. They’re a mixed bunch but all committed to music and all wanting...

September 17, 2017 Susan Elkin

The Sword and the Dope (Susan Elkin reviews)

The joke about expecting to get terrible reviews because “it’s in this show’s manifesto isn’t it?” sounds very confident. Sadly, that confidence...

September 17, 2017 Susan Elkin

You can’t teach what you don’t do

In his 1903 play Man and Superman  Bernard Shaw famously observes that “He, who can, does. He, who cannot, teaches”. And it...

September 10, 2017 Susan Elkin

What use is a university drama course?

It’s dead easy to get into university. It’s very hard to get into a good drama school. Why? Applicants should reflect on...

August 28, 2017 Susan Elkin

The Mikado (Susan Elkin reviews)

Illyria, touring Whoever would have thought that you could bring The Mikado off with a cast of six? Well, Illyria certainly show...