What The Critics Say
Reviewed by: Jackie Chappell, Bath Chronicle | Performed at: The Mission Theatre
"Next Stage director John Matthews’ production is a triumph."
Reviewed by: Christopher Hansford, Bath Chronicle | Performed at: The Mission Theatre
"The company handles powerful and difficult productions with the kind of assurance that is, frankly, astonishing to find in amateur theatre."
Reviewed by: Jackie Chappell, Bath Chronicle | Performed at: The Mission Theatre, Bath
"Next Stage has done a remarkable thing in following on from a series of super successful film and TV versions of this play and staging a production under the direction of Ann Garner that is quite captivating...The film version with Maggie Smith delighted us in 1969 and now, 40 years later, this stage production has the same effect all over again."
Reviewed by: Frank Ruhrmund, The Cornishman | Performed at: The Minack Theatre, Porthcurno
"As appetising and as filling as a Vienna schnitzel, from its crowd scenes, its handsomely costumed royal court – it's as good to look at as it is to listen to – to its more intimate moments, from its slick shifting of furniture and changing of scenes to its actual story telling, it is as smooth as the sea was on its opening night."
Reviewed by: Christopher Hansford, Bath Chronicle | Performed at: The Mission Theatre, Bath
"This is first rate utterly professional theatre of which Bath should be hugely proud."
Reviewed by: Christopher Hansford, Bath Chronicle | Performed at: The Mission Theatre, Bath
"We were in the hands of a highly skilled company of players who brought out the passion and skipped lightly over the occasional moments of black humour so that the smell of debauchery hardly ever left our nostrils."
Reviewed by: Christopher Hansford, Bath Chronicle | Performed at: The Mission Theatre, Bath
"If Bath was any other middle sized town and without one of the best professional theatres in the country, Next Stage performances at the Mission would be packed out every night of the week. Together, they really do give us extraordinarily good theatre, Tennessee Williams' Orpheus being a particularly good example...I would not have missed it for anything."
Reviewed by: Emma Samways, The Bath Chronicle | Performed at: The Mission Theatre, Bath
This fast-paced and energetic show isn’t your usual kids’ production – these young people show acting maturity way beyond their years.