Theatre reviews - 2007
Review of The Gravity of Honey at Chester Theatre Company
October 5, 2007 performance reviewed by Frances Benn Hall.
Bruce E Rodger’s “The Gravity of Honey” now rotating in repertory at the Chester Theatre Company with Jerome Kilty’s “Dear Liar,” is a strange play and one in which this reviewer found the acting more fascinating than the script.
The play begins with Honey Leon (Bairbre Dowling), a [...]
Review of Dear Liar at the Chester Theatre Company
October 3, 2007 performance reviewed by Frances Benn Hall
Jerome Kilty’s Dear Liar is one of two Irish plays being offered in repertory at the Chester Theatre Company in its annual Founders Director’s Production. Directed by Vincent Dowling, who in 1990 founded the company as The Miniature Theatre of Chester, it is a glorious romp into [...]
The Secret of Sherlock Holmes, Shakespeare and Company
Sept. 28, 2007 performance reviewed by Frances Benn Hall
With the summer season of Shakespeare plays over, the Founders’ Theatre has for the current production of Jeremy Paul’s “The Secret of Sherlock Holmes” been reconfigured into a proscenium-type theatre with stage spanning the back wall and audience seating replacing the thrust stage area.
Set designer Paulo Seixas’s [...]
Educating Rita, at Berkshire Theatre Festival
Sept. 27, 2007 performance reviewed by Frances Benn Hall
That Willy Russell’s “Educating Rita” starring Jonathan Epstein and Tara Franklin, directed by Richard Corley, mounted on a fabulously versatile and detailed set, now again playing at the Unicorn Theatre, would be the icing on the cake on top of an outstanding summer season at the BTF, [...]
Review of Mrs. Warrens Profession at Berkshire Theatre Festival
August 22, 2007 performance reviewed by Frances Benn Hall.
Three years ago I made the long trek to Canada to see if the Shaw Festival was as magnificent as everybody said it was. It was. (See Ms. Hall’s reviews of Man and Superman and Pygmalion at Shaw Festival, [...]
