Peter Maddern

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Sep 13

FILM – Girl Asleep – 3.5K

With the strong potential to be a sleeper that emerges a success, Girl Asleep is ideal for anyone with teenage children and for them to attend alone. 3.5K

Sep 01

THEATRE – Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense – Her Majesty’s – 4K

The acting and stage craft is, as one would expect of seasoned British performers, brilliant. 4K

Aug 24

THEATRE – The 39 Steps – Playhouse – 4.5K

This is comic theatre at its best. 4.5K

Aug 19

THEATRE – Titus Andronicus – Red Phoenix Theatre – HST – 3.5K

If slaughter is your thing, get off your couches shaped by hours before Game of Thrones and take in how it used to be done, live on stage. 3.5K

Aug 16

VISUAL ART – Stanley Spencer – Carrick Hill

This is an excellent exhibition of one of England’s finest 20th century painters, bringing together works from across the country and England in a rare retrospective of colour and beauty that sits more than soundly in the grandeur of Carrick Hill.

Aug 15

FILM – Motorkite Dreaming – 3.5K

Beyond the adrenaline rush of flying these things, the perspective on the land and its people, combined with the contraption’s fragility, make this Dreaming riveting and enjoyable viewing. 3.5K

Aug 15

GUITAR FESTIVAL – Paco de Lucía – The Journey – Her Majesty’s – 4K

This a superb documentary which, thanks to volumes of recorded video and quite open conversations with Paco by his son, reveals the, at times, very problematic journey of a genius. 4K

Aug 13

GUITAR FESTIVAL – Lord Byron’s Don Juan – Tama Matheson and Karin Schaupp – 4.5K

Matheson’s Lord Byron’s Don Juan is a gem, a quinella of consummate writing and delivery, a gripping tale of a free spirit accompanied by rhythms of love, passion and struggle. 4.5K

Aug 12

THEATRE – 42nd Street – Scotch College

The students and staff at Scotch College have ambitiously taken on 42nd Street and deliver a fine evening of singing and dancing, with the tap sequences perhaps the highlight.

Aug 10

THEATRE – The Crucible – UATG – Little Theatre – 3.5K

Kim Clark shines in his demanding role as John Proctor, scaling a number of arcs of character and plot especially as he comes to face that terrible choice between truth and life. 3.5K