Ben Clark

Ben Clark highlights the successes and limitations of BTC’s production of ‘As You Like It’.

Ben Clark enjoys Green Door Theatre Company’s production of ‘Breathing Corpses’ despite some pacing issues.

Ben Clark spends an afternoon in Fellow’s Garden, Castle and enjoys an “uproarious production” of ‘Twelfth Night’.

Ben Clark heads down to the DSU Vane Tempest Room to see the first offering of the Durham Festival of the Arts’ Black Box Series, and is impressed by the maturity of this production.

“Director Max Lindon has chosen to adapt Julius Caesar for the ‘post-truth age’. Yet where his production falls down is through a lack of consistency on the vision it promised.”

This revival of Coward’s classic comedy of manners subtly highlights its trenchant critique of social class and its portrayal of love as a violent, unmannerly passion.

Featuring many of Monty Python’s best characters, such as the Knights who say Ni and the Black Knight (‘Tis but a scratch), fans of the original films will not be disappointed.

‘The Seagull presents a unique set of challenges, featuring a play-within-a-play, a suicidal lover and so many love triangles you’ll walk out seeing shapes. Yet Fortnight Theatre Company certainly did it justice’

The Durham Revue ‘could do no wrong’ as the troupe returned to the Assembly Rooms for a final rendition of their award-winning sketch show, Gigglebox.