Fifteen minutes after the advertised start time of 7:30, the new touring production of An Inspector Calls at the New Wimbledon Theatre still hadn’t started. This seemed to be because a group of teenage schoolchildren didn’t look as if they could find their seats. Then when they were seated and the … [Read more...]
Saturday Night Fever at New Wimbledon Theatre | Review
In 1976 Nik Cohn wrote an article for New York magazine entitled “Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night” about the thriving disco scene in Brooklyn although he later confessed to having made the whole thing up! Made up or not, little did Cohn realise that his article would inspire a major Hollywood … [Read more...]
Review of Medicine at the Hope Theatre
The thrust stage of small but perfectly formed Hope Theatre in Islington contains a park bench and a large handbag in middle of the floor - about as minimal a set as you can get. The lights dim and two women enter - Moira-Bridget Byrne (played by Meghan Tyler) and Ma Byrne (Lynsey-Anne Moffat). … [Read more...]
Churchill Theatre Bromley Autumn Season Launch
It must be really difficult if you run a provincial theatre and have to put bums on seats seven days a week, fifty-two weeks a year in order to remain profitable. And it must be even more difficult if you’re a 785-seater theatre like the Churchill in Bromley and you’re only a twenty-minute train … [Read more...]
Toscatastrophe! – Tête à Tête The Opera Festival | Review
Some of the criticisms of opera are that it’s too serious, a bit po-faced and not for the ordinary man in the street and those doing the criticising could have a point. However, that couldn’t be said for Tête à Tête’s Toscatastrophe! (try saying that after a glass of wine or two) which was performed … [Read more...]
Review of BISHI: The Good Immigrant – King’s Cross London
Sitting in Lewis Cubitt Square on one of the hottest nights of the year (the hottest?) listening to Bishi playing her sitar it was more like being in Mumbai than King’s Cross! Bishi Bhattacharya to give her full name was kicking off Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival, an event playing over three … [Read more...]
Exit The King by Eugène Ionesco at the National Theatre
The country is divided down the middle, ministers are leaving in droves and the leader of the country refuses to leave his post – sound familiar? The leader of the country has strange hair and an oddly coloured face. He has two wives and the country is divided with the working class supporting … [Read more...]