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Mercury Theatre : The Winter’s Tale.

Another excellent production from Colchester's Mercury Theatre with a couple of standout performances.

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The Rivals : another Mercury Theatre success!

If you’re looking for a traditional performance of this mannered Restoration classic, with wigs and sedan chairs, men in breeches, ladies with bouffant wigs hiding behind their fans, then best to head up to London to see Peter Hall’s production with Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles. What you get with the Mercury Theatre Company’s version [...]

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Mercury Theatre’s Feb-July 2011 Programme

The brochure for the the Mercury Theatre’s new programme popped through the letterbox the other day. We were at the Mercury for last year’s standout performance of ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ (review) which garnered a lot of praise, so let’s see what’s on offer this Spring… Sheridan’s ‘The Rivals’ opens in February. It’s a comic [...]

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Review : Mercury Theatre Company’s ‘Grapes of Wrath’

We got back home late night emotionally drained after 3hrs watching the Mercury Theatre Company’s performance of ‘Grapes of Wrath’. I’d read the story about 35 years ago whilst at school, at it had a big impact on me then. This performance does Steinbeck’s novel full justice. And how!

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Grapes of Wrath – Mercury Theatre Colchester

Our tickets for the Grapes of Wrath at the Colchester Mercury Theatre have arrived in the post, and we’re looking forward to it enormously. Tickets are on sale now, with the show running 15-30th October 2010, and our recommendation is get yourself along there! Online booking for the Mercury Theatre is here

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Porridge

A couple of weeks ago we spent an evening in the old tram depot, watching the Colchester Mercury Theatre’s ‘Depot’. That was a ‘promenade’ show, in which the audience move around the location – which we enjoyed and reported on. Last night it was more traditional fayre at the Mercury Theatre itself, watching ‘Porridge’. It [...]

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Depot – theatre in the old tram depot

On Saturday we had a great night out courtesy of the Mercury Theatre Company, celebrating their 10th Anniversary. Our relationship with the Mercury is somewhat longer, as we first went to the Mercury in about 1983. It wasn’t an auspicious start. Having spent three years in Leeds making the most of student nightlife, we were [...]