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- ↑ "NEW ARTISTIC & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ANNOUNCED FOR EXETER NORTHCOTT THEATRE". Exeter Northcott Theatre.
- ↑ "What's On Stage Review of Friend or Foe". What's on Stage.
- ↑ "New leadership team appointed at Colchester Mercury". The Stage.
- ↑ "Review: Betty Blue Eyes, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds". York Press..
- ↑ Shilling, Jane (20 March 2014). "Betty Blue Eyes, The Mercury Theatre: 'the sow steals every scene'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
- ↑ "Clybourne Park review at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester – ‘a tense, terrific staging’". The Stage, 18 Jun 2014 / Charles Hutchinson
- ↑ "REVIEW: End Of The Rainbow, Churchill Theatre Bromley (on Tour)". British Theatre, By Douglas Mayo on 10 March 2016
- ↑ End of the Rainbow – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury". Reviews Hub, 04/03/2016