The Theatre Royal at York always puts great gusto and enthusiasm into all their productions. This summer’s, ‘Wind in the Willows’ has had a huge build up, starting in February of this year. I have deliberately closed my eyes to the Facebook feeds, as I didn’t want the element of surprise to be taken away [...]

  ‘People boil in oil while blocks of ice stand watching’. I am not a theatre critic. When I go to watch a play, I like to totally lose myself in the story and not concern myself with the actors’ abilities. If they are actors worth their merit, then that is how it should be. [...]

  Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall and broke beyond repair…it doesn’t seem much of a tale to fit a play around, but actor, writer, director and Pantomime dame extraordinaire, Berwick Kaler, manages to do just that with a brilliance that no-one else could ever achieve. The pantomime, ‘Humpty [...]