The last time I saw a production of Betty Blue Eyes, it was 2011, the year of the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Now in 2018, in the same year of the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, comes a student production from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance, of a show … [Read more...]
Section 2 – A New play by Peter Imms at The Bunker | Review
In the same week that the Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre launched ‘Theatre Helpline’, a telephone and email service supporting people working in the theatre industry with issues relating to their health and wellbeing, seeing Section 2 could not have been timelier. The setting is a … [Read more...]
Cockamamy presented by Think and Hit at The Hope Theatre | Review
It’s all very well laughing at what people with dementia come out with sometimes. ‘People with dementia.’ It sounds like splitting hairs but for those who have it, and those with a relative or close friend with it, it can make a difference. They are to be defined as people first and foremost, and, … [Read more...]
Review of Flutter at Soho Theatre Upstairs
“It’s a tax on the rich.” That was the dismissive verdict of a successful businessman on the National Lottery, and of gambling in general (even if I have it on good authority that he took no action regarding a recent World Cup sweepstake amongst his employees). Flutter is not the sort of show that … [Read more...]
Review of Shakespeare’s Mad Women by Lady Garden Theatre Company
Shakespeare’s Mad Women sees Ophelia (Gabrielle Pausey) of Hamlet and Lady Macbeth (Holly Cuffley) of ‘the Scottish play’, in contemporary garb. The curiosity and intrigue of another companion joining them is somewhat short-lived, as Juliet (Gala Wesson) of Romeo and Juliet is rather confused and, … [Read more...]
Crazy Coqs presents Classic Songs from the Musicals
The thing about subtitling a show Classic Songs From The Musicals is that it all depends what one means by ‘classic’. I once attended a concert at the Royal Albert Hall featuring songs from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, and given Hammerstein’s passing in 1960, no song was later than that … [Read more...]
Ghost About the House by Matthew Campling at the King’s Head Theatre
This isn’t, as a note in the programme for this production of Ghost About The House points out, the first show to feature a ghost or ghostly character or representation of a ghost (you get the drift). There’s ‘the Scottish play’, to go by its colloquial name, as it is still, even in these supposedly … [Read more...]