Theatre reviewer - Pat Harper's blog

The very funny Lettice & Lovage comes to the Watermill

January 24th 2012

A great start to the 2012 season at the Watermill - Peter Schaffer's (Equus, Amadeus) award-winning comedy comes to Bagnor on 16th February.

Wind in the Willows - THE show to see this Christmas

December 12th 2011

What a lovely, lovely show - perfect for the whole family.

An Audience with Sir Patrick Stewart at the Watermill

November 15th 2011

Sir Patrick Stewart makes a rare public appearance at The Watermill Theatre on Wednesday 7th December to talk about his distinguished career, spanning almost half a century.

Treasure Island at the Watermill

December 9th 2010

Avast, ye landlubbers! The Watermill's winter offering of Treasure Island is a triumph of foot-tapping music, a great story, a cracking heroine and some astonishingly hairy wigs.

Review of Alan Bennett's 'Single Spies' at the Watermill

October 14th 2010

‘Single Spies’ brings together two marvellous Alan Bennett plays - An Englishman Abroad, and A Question of Attribution. Sparkling but rather strange to our 21st century sensibilities, it's also quite an early finish - around 9.30 - so still time to get home before Spooks ends.

Jo Brand postponed to November 2nd

October 14th 2010

Jo Brand couldn't make it on Wednesday 13th, but we've managed to re-arrange it to Tuesday November 2nd.

Barbara Taylor Bradford interview last week

October 11th 2010

Do you know, I WAS nervous in the end - as her car swept in to the car park I did wonder if the Queen of the Feisty Heroine would find me a bit parochial. Well, if she did, you'd never have guessed, and this interview turned out to be one of the Book Club highlights.

Gervase Phinn – Watermill Book Club 27th October

September 7th 2010

Joy of joys, Gervase Phinn is coming to the Watermill Book Club on Wednesday October 27th at 1.30pm. If you've read any of his books, or heard him on the radio, you won’t want to miss the chance of hearing him talk about his latest book, Out Of The Woods But Not Over The Hill. And if you’ve not come across him before – well, you’re in for a real treat.

Jo Brand - back at the Watermill Book Club 13th October

September 2nd 2010

Jo was the very first author to be interviewed at the Watermill Book Club, way back in June 2009. She said then that she’d love to come back, and so will be at the Watermill on Wednesday 13th October at 1.30pm, with the second part of her autobiography, Can’t Stand Up for Sitting Down.

Giffords Circus - fab

September 2nd 2010

Charming, quirky, old-fashioned, funny – just lovely. Just walking up to the weeny Big Top was fun, with the gold and burgundy caravans and the barrel organ playing away. And the circus itself was unlike anything I've ever seen - in a good way.