By Dan O’Farrell. Ever since the success of ‘The Buddy Holly Story’, the appeal of the ‘rock & roll’ musical has been a recurring theme of West End and Broadway successes, with shows like ‘Jersey Boys’ and even ‘Hairspray’ tapping into the febrile yet innocent lore of late 1950s...
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Review: Jack and the Beanstalk, Salisbury Playhouse
By Dan O’Farrell. As a certifiably pretentious graduate of English Literature, full-time English teacher and ‘wannabe’ man-of-letters, I’ve laboured most of my post-childhood life believing that the great British tradition of ’The Christmas Pantomime’ was – most assuredly – not for me. Like a miserly Scrooge confronted with theatrical...