If you fancy a light-hearted show of entrancing fairytales, this performance is definitely not for you! You would do well to take note of all the signs telling you that the content is sinister and shocking… It truly is.

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On entering the venue, you might find Mark Allen sitting doing a crossword and asking audience members to help him by suggesting alternative words. This creates a relaxed vibe and good rapport right from the start.

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The Storytelling Centre is a wonderful venue. The seats are spacious, the isles wide enough to make for sufficient leg room, and they offer a great view of the stage.

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If you want a show which is entertaining, humorous, has good acting, amazing singing, dancing and jazz hands, Plague! The Musical is the one. This wonderful family show is set in around the 1700s and is a funny musical about Clive, who comes to London to seek his fortune as an actor, but instead trains as an undertaker, and unwittingly unleashes the bubonic plague.

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If history and theatre is your forte, and you are only able to see one show this entire Festival, it has to be “The Man Who Was Hamlet”. You will be amazed, delighted, amused and shocked as you watch George Dillon acting as the scandalous Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, in a brilliant production in which he not only performs, but which he actually wrote!

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I, Elizabeth is a moving, emotional and passionate production. It shows Elizabeth I, frustrated and pondering, after receiving a letter from the nobles and Lords of England with regards to matters concerning her marriage and her heir.

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The venue for Eric’s Tales of the Sea seems to be down in the bowls of the earth. You find yourself climbing down stairs and negotiating long, dark passageways until you start to hear the metallic “ping” of a submarine.

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Leisa Rea’s Pension Plan is somewhat of a contradiction. Leisa herself is highly entertaining, is clearly not a novice to stand-up, and has good content for her show.

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This show SHOULD be called “Henry Paker’s 3D Bungle”. If you decide to waste your money on buying a ticket to Henry Paker, be warned.

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If you go in to see The Butterfly Effect expecting something similar to the movie of the same name, you will find yourself more than a little confused.

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