Nelle Cross

Since this was my first uneducated visit to Leamington Spa’s local theatre company, I was expecting a very little shop of amateurs, and perhaps a few horrors, but I was delighted to be proven wrong with this professional company’s excellent production. The seeds of The Little Shop of Horrors were first sewn in 1960 as a Roger Corman movie, filmed on the same set as A Bucket of Blood in the two days remaining before it was due to be taken down. In 1982 the film blossomed into

Comedy, feel-good musical and dark horror in Little Shop of Horrors The Loft Theatre Company of Leamington Spa is renowned in local amateur circles for its rigorous rehearsal schedule and professional expectations of its actors and the dedication and professionalism of cast and crew shines through in their slick and energetic production of Little Shop of Horrors. The stage is set with a cross-section, showing part of the downtown streets of New York’s Skid Row and the interio

Big characters and big voices in Loft’s devilish musical hit A bloodthirsty plant, sadistic dentist and sing-along American backstreet earnt rousing applause on Wednesday night; and it’s clear to see why. Little Shop was everything I always hope for from am-dram musicals, but what they nearly always fail to be.It’s enthralling, it’s twee and it’s fun but nothing about the Loft’s Little Shop is clichéd or overworked. In short, it was a great performance from a great cast. Base

It’s a world of hobos, deadbeats and down-and-outs. They slouch along the walls, crawl around the sidewalks, litter the street with the debris of human drudgery. And with opening lyrics belted out in true Motown fashion by a pulsating girls’ trio, the Loft stage roars into life for the zaniest cult musical of them all, a story of innocent young love, the corrupting power of ambition and a relentlessly growing plant that devours people. We’re on Skid Row, magnificently realise