Author Archives: Paul T. Davies
Review: A Beautiful Thread – Thomas Hardy in Words and Music
Take one of our finest actors, with a voice that can add kudos to the [...]
Jul
Review: There is a Light and a Whistle for Attracting Attention
Paul T. Davies reviews There is a Light and a Whistle for Attracting Attention at [...]
Jul
Review: Chopped Liver & Unions at The Headgate Theatre
Blue Fire Theatre Company aim to tell the “important untold stories of the people of [...]
Jul
Review: The Chalk Garden presented by Headgate Theatre Productions
Theatrical legend has it that when John Osborne crashed onto the scene with Look Back [...]
Jun
Review: Flumps at The Mercury Studio
Paul T. Davies reviews Flumps, a Mercury original production now playing at the Mercury Studio. [...]
Jun
Review: Boys from the Blackstuff at the Mercury Theatre
To help a younger generation understand the impact of Alan Bleasdale’s TV drama, I often [...]
May
Review: The Return at the Mercury Theatre Studio
Written and performed by Natasha Stanic Mann, The Return is an autobiographical piece about migration, [...]
May
Review: In Search of Goldoni at the Mercury Theatre Studio
The Mercury Theatre’s second space is on a roll at the moment, with touring productions [...]
May
Review: Camelot by Platform Musicals at the Headgate Theatre
Lerner and Loewe’s 1960 musical can seem like an odd choice for modern audiences. The [...]
May
Review: The Da Vinci Code at the Mercury Theatre
A few weeks ago, I was in the Mercury Café when a woman breezed through, [...]
May
Review: Bakla at the Mercury Theatre Studio
II first saw Max Percy’s extraordinary piece at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2023, and [...]
May
Review: Third Class: A Titanic Story at the Mercury Theatre
Storytelling at its finest provokes strong mental imagery, and here we have a very good [...]
May
Review: Rum at the Mercury Studio
There are many plays currently exploring the construction of masculinity, and its toxicity and damaging [...]
Apr
Review: Flood 25 – The Story of Noah
The medieval mystery plays were performed by town guilds and local citizens. They were a [...]
Apr
Review: Whole at the Mercury Studio
“My sister smells of wood smoke, warm earth, oranges, and dust… we buried you in [...]
Apr
Review: Impromptu Shakespeare at the Headgate Theatre
Lights, action, codpieces! The Bard has been a bit lazy over the last 400 years [...]
Mar
Review: Sophia at the Mercury Theatre
Sophia Duleep Singh – princess, suffragette, and revolutionary. It is an East Anglian story crying [...]
Mar
Interview with Natasha Rickman, Artistic Director of the Mercury Theatre
Keep Colchester Cool’s Theatre Editor, Paul T. Davies, sat down with Natasha Rickman, the new [...]
Mar
Review: Toxic at the Mercury Theatre
Entering what has turned out to be, perhaps unintentionally, a mini LGBTQ+ festival in Colchester [...]
Mar
Review: The 39 Steps at the Mercury Theatre
There can’t be much more than thirty-nine steps from the stage to the audience in [...]
Mar