REVIEW: Return To The Forbidden Planet, Upstairs At The Gatehouse ✭✭✭✭
Julian Eaves reviews Bob Carlton’s musical Return To The Forbidden Planet presented by Ovation Productions Upstairs At The Gatehouse.
Julian Eaves reviews Bob Carlton’s musical Return To The Forbidden Planet presented by Ovation Productions Upstairs At The Gatehouse.
An exciting new theatre has burst onto the scene in the north-west and the UK touring circuit with the opening of Storyhouse in Chester. At a cost of £37million, the former Grade II-listed Art Deco cinema has been transformed into a glorious new building housing a cinema and library with two new theatre spaces. The main theatre will transform in the spring and autumn from being an 800-seat proscenium arch, presenting national and international touring productions, to a more intimate 500-seat space in the summer and at Christmas with a thrust stage extended over the stalls. There is also a 150-seat studio, The Garret Theatre, with its own fourth-floor bar with panoramic views over Chester, as well as a 100-seat boutique cinema. Storyhouse opens with a run of four home-produced shows, performed in rep, by a new repertory company that is the largest in the UK outside the Royal Shakespeare Company and National … Read more