The Wiz – MK Citizen Review

12 Aug 2014

‘The Wiz’ sets Dorothy’s adventures in the Land of Oz to a high-energy fusion of rock, gospel and soul music. Director Robert Marsden, choreographer Scott Ritchie, musical director Matthew Reeve and producer Rachael Findlay were responsible for preparing the youngsters for the all-singing, all-dancing extravaganza – and making the crucial casting decisions.

Georgina Butler, MK Citizen

http://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/community/community-news/review-the-wiz-milton-keynes-theatre-1-6233931

The Nose – Irish Examiner and The Irish Times Review

28 Mar 2014

Few of those adaptations could match Bruiser Theatre Company’s new show for sheer intensity and verve in immersing us in Gogol’s delirious world. Writer Patrick J O’Reilly relocates the tale from Gogol’s St Petersburg to 1920s New York. This allows director Lisa May to mobilise all manner of enjoyable conceits, from a ragtime music score to silent-era slapstick, vaudeville, and the gangster film.

Pádraic Killeen, Irish Examiner

http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsfilmtv/artsvibe/reviews-265826.html#.U1d7ou03fKQ.facebook

To the strains of Matthew Reeve’s evocative Scott Joplin-inspired score and the distant pounding of typewriters, O’Reilly and Rose explode on stage, striking a note of frantic desperation and sweaty enthusiasm for the task in hand.

Jane Coyle, 28 March 2014, The Irish Times

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/stage/review-the-nose-1.1742023

Santa Claus The Musical – The Sussex Newspaper Review

13 Dec 2013

It would, of course, be unfair of me to give away the plot lines but, what I can say is, along the way we meet a colony of singing penguins, two seriously cool dancing polar bears, a horde of singing crows, almost all of Santa’s reindeer (including the one with the bright red nose) and all of this happens to a musical score that contains some of the best Christmas songs ever written.

The Sussex Newspaper, 13 December 2013

http://www.paulholmanassociates.co.uk/showinfo.asp?showID=100070