In just three months, theatrical productions on Zoom have become the norm as producers and actors look for a way to keep working and entertain people who can’t get to see live theatre. Zoom theatre productions now even have their own tropes such as the passing of an object be it a prop or piece […]
Big Telly’s Live Zoom show – The Machine Stops – by E. M. Forster
A few months ago all the word Zoom meant to me was the title of two songs, one by The Commodores and one by Fat Larry’s Band but I was soon to find out it was also the name of a video-conferencing application that allowed people from all over the world to communicate with each […]
Big Telly Theatre presents Operation Elsewhere
Earlier this year my life was transformed as was everyone’s on the planet when Covid-19 started its deadly sweep across the world. Everything really changed for me on Monday March 16th when the Prime Minister “advised” people to stay away from restaurants, bars, cinemas and theatres and since that speech, my life hasn’t been the […]
The Time Machine at The London Library | Review
Walking through a seemingly less busy than usual central London towards The London Library in St James’s Square, there apparently was one thing on everyone’s mind – the coronavirus. Hoping that a couple of hours or so watching a site-specific, promenade, immersive version of H G Wells’ 1895 novella The Time Machine would give us […]
CORPSE! by Gerald Moon at Park Theatre (Park90) | Review
It’s December 11th, 1936 and a very tall, elegant middle-aged woman returns to her Soho flat from a trip to Fortnum & Mason to stock up with items for lunch. As she begins to undress, we see that all is not what it seems. The woman is, in fact, itinerant actor Rupert Farrant and under […]