Audience Comments

LAKESIDE AND LINCOLN PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE (LPAC) PRESENTS PREMIERE
BOMBER'S MOON

BY WILLIAM IVORY

'My wife and I came to see Bomber's Moon last night. I just wanted to say thanks for a tremendous night's entertainment. A superb script, great production and acting of the highest calibre from Tim Dantay and Paul Greenwood. It was a privilege to see two actors put on such a performance in the uniquely intimate atmosphere of the Lakeside theatre. Well done to everyone, I hope the play goes on to be seen by a wider audience.' - Tony Hicks

'...it was a wonderful, moving and at times very funny show. Fantastically sustained and powerful acting.'
- Robert William Edlin White, University of Nottingham Phd Student

 

GRAEAE THEATRE COMPANY IN ASSOCIATION WITH THEATRE ROYAL STRATFORD EAST PRESENTS

SIGNS OF A STAR SHAPED DIVA

'Please could pass on our comments to last night show. It was Great. All my BSL students and myself loved it and found it very useful too. The whole show and performance was out standing and we would go to see another show.'
- Marie Tacey, BSL Level 1 & 2 Tutor and BSL level 1 & 2 students from Burleigh College in Loughborough

IMAGINING LANDSCAPES WORKSHOP FOR ADULTS
March - April 2010

'Not sure how you managed to book nick hedderley for the painting course, but he is brilliant!... a natural and very enthusiastic and encouraging tutor. Nick is very accessable and animated- a real inspiration and good motivator...im looking forward to the following few weeks...Couldnt help but drop you a line as i was so delighted at the quality of teaching last night!' - Sam Poyser

NEW PERSPECTIVES THEATRE COMPANY AND DERBY LIVE IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE THEATRE WRITING PARTNERSHIP PRESENTS

WASTELAND

Friday 22 May 8pm
"We thought it was great."
Josephine Doherty

"Brilliant. The cast played it so well. Very happy I came to see it. Well done to all 3."
Anon

"Excellently written. Excellently performed. I could smell Newark."
Anon

"Fantastic performance by all three of cast. A powerful and gripping watch. Very emotional, yet amusing too. Well done all."
Sarah Muniffe

 

TESTIMONIES BY AUDIENCE MEMBERS

“The Lakeside Arts Centre is a wonderful venue and is always very welcoming. It has a very intimate feel to it and you have always tried to present a wide and varied range of artists and work.  Keep it up.

Lakeside is one of my very favourite venues with, its location, its welcome, its variety, its charm and its sometimes challenging and provocative presentations.”
Jeremy Spry

"Really good, a thoroughly enjoyable experience."
Anon

"Good storyline, gripping, felt part of it with the small theatre. Humourous, yet intense."
Bridgette Jones

"Remarkable. Astonishing command of language. A wonderful play, superbly acted."
Anon

"Heart-rendering, passionate and, tragically, could be so real. Grippingly performed. Thank you. Well done!"
Pamela Hassop

"Superb - the actors and actresses were absolutely fantastic. Agreat show!"
Sarah Boyle

"The most amazing performance I have seen for a long time. This reality was spectacular. To say I enjoyed it is not quite the right expression, a difficult emotion to express. Absolutely fantastic."
Tina Barnes

"Absolutely incredible acting - very real, moving, sadly too often true to life! The story line was realistic and showed how easy it is to take the wrong path but for all the right reasons." 
Sally Shelton

"Very well written, brilliant subject matter. The cast were great, Loved Meghan, although all 3 were fantastic."
Anon

"Fantastic acting. Gripping play, Lots of emotion. Actors fab - especially Joe!"
Anon

"Excellent acting by Joe Doherty, Sophie Ellerby and Karl Haynes. Gripping performance captures the essence of Newark."
Anon

"Fantastic performances by all, especially Joe!"
Anon

"Excellent atmosphere very well acted and well written."
Anon

"Gritty and heart moving. Great to see the colour underneath the black and white surface!"
Darren Mangold

"Wasteland is brilliant. Laura Lomas is a fantastic writer and Sophie Ellerby an amazing actor."
Anon

"Excellent production and actors."
Anon

"Extremely well acted - thought provoking. Very modern. I look forward to seeing future productions."
Rosemary Kelly

"Fantastically, brilliantly, superbly acted! But what writing!"
Jonathan McGuigan

 

Rachel Podger and Gary Cooper
Thursday 2 April 2009

"I attended the concert given by Rachel Podger and Gary Cooper last night in Nottingham and would be grateful if you could pass on my appreciation to them both. I have not had such a completely enthralling musical experience for many years. - David Lally"

PILOT THEATRE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH YORK THEATRE ROYAL AND UNICORN THEATRE PRESENTS
Looking for JJ
Thursday 28 February - Saturday 1 March 2008

"We had a wonderful experience at Lakeside Arts centre when we saw Looking for JJ. Some students had not been to a theatre before and some had only seen pantomime. We had some lovely discussions and questions."

"It was good how they used the bed and the chairs to be different things and different places 'specially when the bed was that tunnel."

"The play ended slightly differently to the book and this set them off thinking that what they had seen and read was only a part of JJ’s  life. They discussed what else might happen to her and wondered about writing a sequel."

"From being a very quiet group they have developed into a lively bunch, eager to talk and give their opinions. They are eager to repeat the experience."