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 […]
Spree by Myriad Immersive at the Vault Festival | Review
I’ve been going to the Vaults Festival in Waterloo for the past few years and was always intrigued by the portacabin at the junction of Lower Marsh and the Leake Street tunnel which is used as performance space. This year it’s been taken over by Myriad Immersive to put on Spree a piece of immersive […]
Cabaret at New Wimbledon Theatre | Review
Bill Kenwright’s production of Kander & Ebb’s classic musical Cabaret is back on tour just two years after it played at various theatres around the country with Will Young as the Emcee and Louise Redknapp as Sally Bowles. This time they’re replaced respectively by John Partridge and Kara Lily Hayworth and a completely new cast. […]
People Show 137: God Knows How Many at Southwark Playhouse
Two-thirds of the way through People Show 137 – God Knows How Many I was starting to think about my review of the latest performance piece from The People Show, the UK’s longest-running experimental theatre group. I was going to write how this surreal – or was it Dadaist – piece of theatre had everything […]
Beautiful The Carole King Musical at Churchill Theatre | Review
I had to admit that I’m not a big fan of jukebox musicals but I’m an enormous fan of Carole King having seen her live on a number of occasions, have nearly all of her albums and even worked for her record company back in the day! So, it was with some trepidation that I […]