The Great Gatsby meets Cabaret in this production of Woyzeck, one of those plays famous in the theatre world but lesser-known more generally. When its writer, Georg Büchner (1813-1837) died of typhus, the play was still unfinished, and therefore there have been various interpretations of it. Its leading characters, somewhat unusually for a work of […]
The Seth Concert Series – Jeremy Jordan | Review
Jeremy Jordan was (sort of) promised a London run when he was in a production of Finding Neverland at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2014. But that production never went to the West End, transferring directly to Broadway instead, and without three of the four main leads from the ART cast. But […]
Love Screens: a pre-recorded premiere – Review
There’s a certain level of frustration that many people have felt in lockdown, and if it’s escapism you’re after in an online theatre production, it’s to be found elsewhere. Love Screens is almost brutally honest in its portrayals of human interaction. It does so partly by using a common (or, if you please, repetitive) technique: […]
The Little Fox And Other Mongolian Folktales Concept Recording
It’s not often I learn something new (other than information about the recording in question, of course) just by reading the album’s notes. A ‘ger’ is what people in Mongolia call a ‘yurt’ – a portable tent structure. As details of various sizes, types and so on can be read about elsewhere online, I won’t […]
Sleepless: A Musical Romance at Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre
Sleepless in Seattle apparently had a budget of $21 million and box office takings of $227.9 million – the profit margin for Sleepless: A Musical Romance, its theatrical adaptation, is not going to be anywhere near that. Indeed, a note in the programme pulls no punches, making it plain that with social distancing in place, […]