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Gladstone-Pottery-Museum
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Gladstone Pottery Museum – a Stoke-on-Trent Delight

Stoke-on-Trent and Pottery go hand in hand. For centuries the City has produced pottery which can be seen all over the world, and the history dating back over 300 years is quite remarkable. A unique insight into this history can be experienced…
Nicholas Richardson as Philip Astley
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Astley’s Astounding Adventures at the New Vic

Astley’s Astounding Adventures - increase the added emphasis on Astounding by one million per cent and you might just be able to imagine what this sensational show achieves via this review. Unbelievable circus performers combined with passionate…
Ford Green Hall
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Ford Green Hall – Fascinating Little Gem

Along Ford Green Road, in Smallthorne a delightful little gem can be found. One steeped in history and set in beautiful surroundings away from the hustle and the bustle. That gem is Ford Green Hall - an award winning museum which offers a fantastic…
Hairspray at The Regent
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Hairspray Review – The Regent Theatre

Hairspray at The Regent, Hanley – It’s magic gains a hold on you. Hairspray is glittery and it’s bouffant. Feel-good musical numbers neatly segue into song and dance routines, and then without missing a beat turn into Motown and Blues.…
Table at New Vic
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Table at the New Vic – Review

Have you ever inherited a heirloom which has been passed down through the generations of your family? And if you have, have you ever wondered what stories that piece of jewellery, painting or even dinner set has been a part of, and asked how…
throughly modern millie
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Thoroughly Modern Millie Review – The Regent Theatre

Following your dreams can have it’s ups and downs. Leaving your home town to go in search of that career you’ve only before imagined, or that husband, or wife, you have only dreamt about is a big decision. In Thoroughly Modern Millie - at…
whisky galore
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Whisky Galore Review at the New Vic

An extraordinary wartime story once emerged from the Outer Hebrides concerning a ship that foundered in rough seas on rocks off Eriskay and dumping its cargo of 264,000 bottles of Scotch Whisky into the sea. This was a true story and one which…
Andrew Pollard Lauryn Redding
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Educating Rita at the New Vic Theatre Review

Growing up, learning and finding your own personal niche in life is never easy. Often the sense of alienation can fall upon us all at some point whilst merging from child to adult, from student to employment and searching for that place where…
Danielle Henry
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Votes For Women

It was apparently once said that it was a great mistake in allowing women to talk, and it is a fact that women in the UK were not allowed to vote until 1918. The right to vote came about after a lengthy and determined campaign led by the suffragettes…
Playhouse Creatures
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Playhouse Creatures at the New Vic

The New Vic Theatre open their spring season with April De Angelis’ Playhouse Creatures, the first play in their season of work focused around empowerment to mark the centenary of women’s suffrage. On stage from Friday 2 – Saturday…
Cast of The Band
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Regent Theatre – The Band Review

From the moment you enter the theatre auditorium an old school TV screen on the stage quickly takes your mind back to thinking what you were doing years ago, as a teenager or twenty-something. Conversations turn into reminiscent chats about…