Blackeyed Theatre is coming to the end of a six month national tour of Dracula; I saw the production yesterday evening at the Greenwich Theatre. This theatre troupe has built a reputation for “creating dynamic theatre using live music and great performances to tell stories with honesty and passion.” This small company with only 5 actors has taken on the huge task of performing the epic horror story of Dracula, a story that was first penned in the 1870s by Bram Stoker – Stoker was an Irish … [Read more...]
Anthony Shaffer’s Murderer Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Murder dramas are loved by the British public. Agatha Christie is the world’s bestselling novelist (outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare) viewing figures for Poirot, Midsummer Murders and Lynda la Plant dramas are always sky-high, conspiracy theories a plenty regarding whom exactly Jack the Ripper was exist, and, as a nation we are all intrigued by the likes of Fred West, Myra Hindley and Ian Brady. It is therefore only right that the theatrical world has its own Crime and Murder … [Read more...]
Review of Paul Boyd’s Molly Wobbly The Comedy Musical
Performed within the intimate setting of The Phoenix Arts Club, Molly Wobbly is an iconoclastic performance in the ilk of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Little Shop of Horrors and The Forbidden Planet! Do not expect Lloyd Webber-esque show tunes, big production values or multiple costume changes, but do expect risqué and salacious lyrics and a lexicon of Boob Jokes. If bawdy jokes and word play coupled with sexual innuendo make you chuckle, if you're a fan of The "Carry On" style of … [Read more...]
Big Girls Don’t Cry – Featuring the East Coast Boys
One night only, Friday 28th February at Millfield Theatre: Although they tour nationally and internationally with a version of the show available for corporate events, charity galas and private functions. You are told there are 4 rules when going to watch Big Girls Don't Cry - Featuring the East Coast Boys: 1) Sing along, - 2) if you don't know the words hum - 3) if you sing better than them, then dance, and 4) and above all that, have a good time, (and that I most certainly did). Like … [Read more...]
Review of Frankenstein at The Lion and Unicorn Theatre
Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus “This tale of terror” is part 1 of a Gothic Trilogy that An Evcol Entertainment - Clockwork Digitals Studios Productions will be presenting throughout 2014 in the studio space within The Lion and Unicorn pub in Kentish Town. The stage is dressed with lush crushed velvet curtains draped from Gothic style oversized photo frames, it is from these frames that the triumphant cast enter and exit the stage, as if photographic memories are coming … [Read more...]
Freedom, Books, Flowers, and the Moon
A huge fan of the works of Oscar Wilde, I am more au fait with the society comedies such as The Importance of Being Earnest and the dark works such as A Picture of Dorian Gray and Salome. In fact, to be honest, I have never read any of Wilde's fairytales first published in 1888. The opportunity to watch "an adapted fantasia of two of Oscar Wilde's most beloved short stories, The Nightingale and The Rose and The Happy Prince" set in pre-war Germany, at the Nazi uprising, especially in days … [Read more...]
The Shakespeare Conspiracy at Chelsea Theatre
The Shakespeare Conspiracy is a an interesting piece of theatre. For me, a cross between Russell T. Davies' Torchwood, Pirandello's 6 Characters in Search of an Author, The Never Ending Story, Ground Hog Day and the complete works of William Shakespeare - perfect for the well-educated, sci-fi theatre geek! (me!) Set in the present, the audience arrives to an open dressed set; blood red theatrical curtains, a set full of "Wanted" posters alluding to a private investigator's … [Read more...]