The warning signs were there: the blood-spattered programme, with its ‘parental advisory’; the menacing stewards; the panic alarm on the desk. But that was scant preparation for what followed. Anthony Horowitz’s Mindgame, the latest Criterion Theatre production, was a visceral examination of good, evil, psychiatry, and the boundaries between sanity and madness. Hack writer Styler …
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Calling all artists
Albany Theatre is launching an exciting new project for the summer and is offering opportunities to get involved. Applications are invited from people over 60 with a personal story to tell, digital artists and creative performers aged between 16 and 25. Storytellers If you’re in your 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s or indeed your 100s …
Criterion mindgames
The Criterion Theatre in Earlsdon is gearing up for its latest production, Mindgame, which opens on Saturday 1 February and runs until Saturday 8 February. The story revolves around true crime writer Mark Styler, who believes he has snared the coup of his career when he gets an interview with a notorious psychopathic serial killer. But when he arrives …
Criterion’s three angels appreciated
My Three Angels, December’s Criterion Theatre production, was a great choice to round off another successful year for the local theatre company. Sam and Bella Spewack’s Broadway play, based on Albert Husson’s French original, La Cuisine des Anges, was a delightful comedy, played with verve and obvious enjoyment by a cast comprising both seasoned regulars …