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CHILDREN’S THEATRE MAGAZINE: REVIEW – Kylie Minogue to the rescue in Kid Carpet’s quest for snow

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Reviewed by Harry Mottram A Bristol Old Vic at Christmas production by Kid Carpet Playing at the Lantern Room in Colston Hall…

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CHILDREN’S THEATRE MAGAZINE: REVIEW: A battle of wills as Isabella battles with the Beast over dinner every Tuesday at 8pm

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CHILDREN’S THEATRE MAGAZINE: PREVIEW: A travelling troupe of Edwardian actors present the Bristol Old Vic’s The Little Match Girl this Christmas

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Children’s Theatre Magazine: PREVIEW: Snow White and her seven ‘accomplished short actors’ bring a traditional panto to Bath

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    • Axbridge Review
      • Axbridge Pageant 2029
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        • ACT’s early days
        • Axbridge Pageant 2022
        • Axbridge Pageant 2022
        • Axbridge Pageant archive
        • Axbridge Pageant Features
        • Axbridge Square
        • Axbridge Square in 1952
        • Basle Air Disaster
        • Books and wine
        • Building Cheddar Reservoir
        • Litter picking in the rain
        • Megan’s Axbridge Part 1
        • Megan’s Axbridge Part 2
        • Megan’s Axbridge Part 3
        • Progressive Supper Details
        • Progressive Supper Review
      • News
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      • Somerset News
    • Bath Voice
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      • Bath Voice What’s On
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      • Theatre Reviews
    • Checkaco Consumer News
    • Children’s Theatre
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      • REVIEWS: Theatre
      • The Magazine
      • Theatre Reviews
      • Videos
    • ICSM Business News
    • Print Monthly
    • Somerset Life
    • Strawberry Line Times
      • Cheddar Reservoir
      • Features
        • 1981 floods
        • Age of the train is returning
        • Along the line in 1899
        • Banwell bombed
        • Beaching rail closures
        • Birnbeck Pier: a brief history
        • Blue remembered hills
        • Bridgwater Carnival numbers
        • Bridgwater Railway Hotel
        • Bridgwater’s old pubs
        • Bristol’s own Bluebell girl
        • Building Cheddar reservoir in the 1930s
        • Burnham footballers
        • Coffee on the line
        • Fish and Chips
        • Highbridge at war
        • Highbridge Caravans
        • How far can the Strawberry Line go?
        • How to make the perfect cuppa
        • Jilted bride
        • Looking Back in Pictures
        • Miss Emily Fazerkerley
        • Old Highbridge recalled
        • Quantock memories
        • Railway workers of Cheddar
        • Renegades Carnival Club
        • Somerset’s Italian POWs
        • The Big Freeze
        • Then and Now
        • Transforming the line
        • Walk around the Res
      • News
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        • Reviews Music
        • REVIEWS: Books
        • REVIEWS: Books – Non Fiction
        • REVIEWS: Cinema
        • REVIEWS: food and drink
        • REVIEWS: Poetry
        • REVIEWS: talking books
        • REVIEWS: Theatre
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      • The Magazine
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    • West Country Riders
    • Western Daily Press
  • Rapscallion Magazine
    • Features
      • 36 Hours in Rome’s Airport
      • Bad New Year’s Resolutions
      • Beautiful Brides Magazine
      • Ben Nevis and Poo Rock
      • Confessions of an art student
      • Dodgy keepers
      • Don’t punch the critic
      • Drunk Goldilocks
      • Dying for a pee
      • Edward Colston’s statue
      • Footballing nuns
      • Holiday hell
      • Indigenous Australians
      • Maggie Smith
      • Mum on TV
      • Night with Sasha
      • Nobody fell over
      • Perfect cuppa
      • Tenby Part 1
      • The Bag Lady
      • The Spiv
      • Tourists in Rome
    • Opinion
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      • 2015 08 August Issue 1
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      • 2015 10 October Issue 3
      • 2015 11 November Issue 4
      • 2016 07 July Issue 05
      • 2017 01 January
      • 2020 12 Rapscallion Magazine December
      • 2021 11 November Rapscallion
      • 2022 07 Rapscallion
      • 2022 11 November
      • 2023 01 January Issue 12
      • Rapscallion Magazine 13 May 2023
 

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