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✮✮✮✮ Jesus Christ Superstar Regent's Park OpenAir Theatre | London music Andrew Lloyd Webber lyrics Tim Rice directed by Timothy Sheader "What's the buzz?" sing the apostles in this frisky al fresco staging of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's first major hit. "Tell me what's a-happening." Well, the buzz is that Timothy Sheader, Artistic Director of Regent's Park OpenAir Theatre for almost a decade, has given us a rip-roaring production whose enjoyment factor goes through th

✮✮✮ 1/2 Christopher Sergel's To Kill A Mockingbird Regent's Park OpenAir Theatre | London directed by Timothy Sheader For many years, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, set during the Great Depression has been known as a classic. However in recent months it has come under scrutiny and deemed irrelevant to modern day audiences; being dropped from the school syllabus along with other classics such as Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. This tale of one man’s plight to do the right th

✮✮✮✮ Harold Brighouse's Hobson's Choice Regent's Park OpenAir Theatre | London directed by Nadia Fall Below waving trees, rustling in the breeze, Hobson’s boot merchant is a sturdy red brick outfit. In this open-air production of Harold Brighouse’s play, a bright 1960s setting upends the 1880s nostalgia of the original as surely as platform and patent fashions would demolish this shop’s dour products. Bringing out the text’s wish-fulfilment feminism in a rush of technicolour