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This is a gorgeous, tender semi-autobiographical play created by Jess Ashley, offering an insight into [...]

“The play’s the thing”, as Hamlet famously puts it, and here it literally is the [...]

It was a dramatic, tension-filled way to begin the first night of the Colchester Fringe. [...]

With a record-breaking number of submissions this year, the growing reputation of Colchester Fringe saw [...]

A local poet is looking forward to sharing his inspiring journey from failing at school [...]

Fringe festivals have become a vital space for LGBTQ+ work, and Colchester is no exception. [...]

Get ready to see Colchester in a whole new way as Shimmy & Shhh bring [...]

There are three things that signal the arrival of autumn: the return of Strictly, a [...]

For ten days, from 25 October to 3 November 2024, Colchester became Fringe City, as [...]

Sparky at SparkWrite reviews Billy Banana’s Brilliant Bingo, staged at the Mercury Theatre. Are you a [...]

Colchester Fringe Review: Cereal For Dinner Paul T. Davies reviews Cereal For Dinner, staged at [...]

Paul T. Davies reviews The Bruise You Can’t See, staged at Firstsite. A powerful and [...]

Sparky at SparkWrite reviews Mr. Bloom, staged at the Headgate Theatre. Mr. Bloom often drifts into [...]

Paul T. Davies reviews The Pen & the Sword – Death of Lorca?, staged at [...]

Paul T. Davies reviews At War With Myself, staged at the Headgate Theatre. Personal stories [...]

Sparky at SparkWrite reviews Poop Poop!, staged at the Headgate Theatre. The show was a beautifully [...]

Sparky at SparkWrite reviews The Zoollusionist: Tails Of a Magical Zoo Keeper, staged at Three Wise [...]

Paul T. Davies reviews Empty Souls – Underluminal’s Salome, staged at Firstsite. It’s a welcome [...]

Paul T. Davies reviews A Year and a Day, staged at the Headgate Theatre. As [...]

Paul T. Davies reviews Burnt Out, staged at the Mercury Studio. As the images from [...]