Marion Sauvebois
Swindon Advertiser
United Kingdom
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REVIEW: Captain Corelli’s Mandolin at Theatre Royal Bath
Review of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin at Theatre Royal Bath, by Marion Sauvebois → Read More
REVIEW: The Comedy About A Bank Robbery
No matter how chaotic it may seem on the surface, a key ingredient of any successful farce is rigorous planning – backed up, of course, by copious… → Read More
Review: Home, I'm Darling
"WHY doesn’t what I do have value?" booms an exasperated Judy. “Because men don’t do it,” her mother blows her top. → Read More
Girl on The Train fires on all cylinders
Barely functioning alcoholic Rachel has very few moments in her life which she cares to remember. Instead, she prefers to imagine things vicariously… → Read More
REVIEW: Equus - passion and the price of worship
What is passion? Is it an undying, brightly burning, love, an act of worship? And if so, what is the price of worship? → Read More
REVIEW: Edwardian drama of steel and wit
The theatre is often used as a vehicle for tales of mystery, intrigue and derring-do, great flights of fancy that tickle the imagination and… → Read More
REVIEW: Deliciously demented despite a stage jinx
There were ooohs and choked aahhs as the mezzanine carrying the bumbling inspector and his prime suspect dropped to the ground, propelling the pair… → Read More
REVIEW: Rambert's ritualistic and macabre Ghost Dances recalls Pinochet's repressive regime
Another year, another triple bill from Rambert... and this irreverent and enormously fun confection does not disappoint one jolt. → Read More
REVIEW: A witty play for today that tackles big issues
When Driving Miss Daisy last came to Bath, it was in a vastly different political climate. Safely in the Obama-era, the issues dealt with –… → Read More
REVIEW: Endearing portrait of a poet against static staging
Let’s not beat around the bush. Love or loath them, one-man shows are a tricky sell – even with the colourful and seemingly endless well of… → Read More
REVIEW: Sand in the Sandwiches at the Theatre Royal Bath
Let’s not beat around the bush. Love or loath them, one-man shows are a tricky sell – even with the colourful and seemingly endless well of… → Read More
REVIEW: Waiting for God at the Theatre Royal Bath
“How are you finding it?” an audience member asked his theatre buddy in hushed tones (but within our finely-tuned earshot) as we pushed our way through the throng during the interval. “It’s a bit close to the bone,” his pal answered pensively. Surely, the highest compliment writer Michael Aitkens could have been paid. After all the play, based on his 1990s BAFTA-nominated sitcom Waiting for God,… → Read More
THEATRE REVIEW: A shower of laughs and caustic flowing wit
“How are you finding it?” an audience member asked his theatre buddy in hushed tones (but within our finely-tuned earshot) as we pushed our way through the throng during the interval. “It’s a bit close to the bone,” his pal answered pensively. Surely, the highest compliment writer Michael Aitkens could have been paid. After all the play, based on his 1990s BAFTA-nominated sitcom Waiting for God,… → Read More
Review: Right royal romp through Nell Gwynn's England
IT is a common saying, 'Truth is stranger than fiction'. → Read More
Review: Perils of fame unleashed with rapier-like wit in bold drama
ONE-hit wonders are ten a penny. Some vanish into sheer oblivion while others like The Mentor’s passé playwright Benjamin Rubin capitalise on their five minutes of fame for the rest of their life. Capitalise is the operative word here. He may still bask in the reflected glory of long ago success but the royalties from his one and only masterpiece, The Long Road, are no longer enough to fund his… → Read More
REVIEW: Shirley Valentine at the Theatre Royal Bath
ASK any frustrated baby-boomer housewife what their fondest dream is, their most heartfelt desire, and the answer is likely to be the same: living with a handsome young Greek on a sunny Aegean island with no cares in the world. Shirley Valentine, the one-woman show premiered by scouser playwright supremo Willy Russell almost thirty years ago, asks the question – what if one woman had the sheer… → Read More
Review: dreams come true in tour-de-force show
ASK any frustrated baby-boomer housewife what their fondest dream is, their most heartfelt desire, and the answer is likely to be the same: living with a handsome young Greek on a sunny Aegean island with no cares in the world. Shirley Valentine, the one-woman show premiered by scouser playwright supremo Willy Russell almost thirty years ago, asks the question – what if one woman had the sheer… → Read More
Bedlam farce is like Coward on speed
Initially I wasn't a fan but as it went on I really bought into the whole madcap thing! → Read More
I’d rather face live bullets again than go through another stroke
Former paratrooper Josh King tells MARION SAUVEBOIS about his dice with death at the hands of the IRA in the 1980s, his fightback to good health… → Read More