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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
This Week’s Recommended Events in Colchester: 10 May
This article originally ran in the Colchester Gazette on Friday 9 May. On Saturday night, [...]
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
Musik in the Park returns to Colchester
Musik in the Park returns to Colchester on Saturday 3rd May, and Sunday 4th May 2025, with a bigger and [...]
Apr
Review: Whole at the Mercury Studio
“My sister smells of wood smoke, warm earth, oranges, and dust… we buried you in [...]
Apr
Review: Tartuffe at the Headgate Theatre
Moliere’s ‘wickedly brilliant’ farce, Tartuffe, hilariously barges its way into The Headgate Theatre to provide [...]
Apr
Battle of the Bands 2025: Celebrating Colchester’s Emerging Talent
On Tuesday night, Colchester’s Battle of the Bands 2025 took place at Three Wise Monkeys. [...]
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
Colchester’s Sound: Celebrating Local Talent
Any rumours that we booked Male Model just because ET starred in their debut video [...]
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
Review: Count Dykula performed at the Mercury Theatre
For the second week in a row, following the highly impressive Liberty Hall, audiences at [...]
Mar
Review: Liberty Hall at the Mercury Studio
LGBTQ+ History Month was well represented in Colchester last week, with The Killing of Sister [...]
Mar
Review: The Killing of Sister George
It is 60 years since The Killing of Sister George opened to critical acclaim and [...]
Feb
Interview with Chris Anderson on acting and his upcoming workshop
Chris Anderson has been a familiar face – and voice – on our screens for [...]
Feb
