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Figure presents a semi-staged performance of Handel’s Serse

July 1, 2022 Last updated: July 1, 2022 11:54 am By John Groves 2 Comments

Figure Ensemble, courtesy of Figure

Handel’s 1738 opera Serse (or Xerxes) is an exploration of power, love and human frailty. King Serse falls in love with the voice of his brother Arsamene’s fiancée, Romilda, and tries to use his authority to force her to marry him. The opera features some of Handel’s most original vocal writing including ‘Ombra Mai Fu’, but was not successful at its first production as it was in a different style to Handel’s other operas, as well as being much shorter. This performance of Serse was … [Read more...]

Singin’ in the Rain at New Wimbledon Theatre

June 29, 2022 Last updated: July 3, 2022 12:55 am By John Groves Leave a Comment

Charlotte Gooch and the Singin' in the Rain Company. Credit: Johan Persson.

I have no hesitation in saying that the 1952 movie “Singin’ in the Rain” and its 1985 stage version is one of the greatest musicals of all time, winning many awards over the years. It is one of the few musicals that not only has many first-rate songs (Nacio Herb Brown / Arthur Freed) but an intelligent, very witty, book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Also, because it is set in the late 1920s, at the time of the first “talkies” and just before the Great Depression, it has a timeless … [Read more...]

The Fellowship by Roy Williams at Hampstead Theatre

June 28, 2022 Last updated: June 28, 2022 1:52 pm By John Groves Leave a Comment

The Fellowship - L-R ETHAN HAZZARD, ROSIE DAY © Robert Day.

Children of the Windrush generation, sisters Dawn and Marcia, grew up in the 1980s. In Roy Williams’ new play Dawn is shown struggling to care for their dying mother as her son drifts away from her and high-flying barrister Marcia finds that her affair with a married politician might destroy her career. The blurb on the script cover describes the play as “electrifying, hilarious... gripping”. Williams has structured his play in two acts, each of six scenes, most of which are short. Nearly … [Read more...]

The King Symphonic: The Music of Elvis Presley

June 18, 2022 Last updated: June 18, 2022 1:22 pm By John Groves Leave a Comment

- Shea Arender

The King Symphonic, presumably timed to complement the recent movie biopic, is a concert of about 25 Elvis Presley songs, mostly well known, performed by the “Las Vegas Symphony Orchestra”. This is actually a 30-piece ensemble, heavily amplified, and not to be confused with the Las Vegas Philharmonic Orchestra which IS a symphony orchestra giving ‘classical’ concerts throughout the year in the USA. In fact, sound design and balance was one of the problems of this concert, the overall effect … [Read more...]

Cluedo at Theatre Royal Brighton | Review

June 14, 2022 Last updated: June 14, 2022 12:40 pm By John Groves Leave a Comment

Tom Babbage, Etisyai Phillips, Wesley Griffiths, Laura Kirman, Jean-Luke Worrell, Michelle Collins, Judith Amsenga, Daniel Casey - Credit Craig Sugden.

Cluedo, the board game, was invented by a British musician and munitions factory worker during World War 2, and launched in 1949, since when there have been 29 special editions, an ITV gameshow, a movie and now a play, written by Sandy Rustin and based on Jonathan Lynn’s (Yes Minister) screenplay. Wisely this witty, unassuming, two hours of very pleasant ‘nonsense’ has been put into the imaginative hands of Mark Bell who was responsible for The Play That Goes Wrong, in which several of the cast … [Read more...]

Everyman – Miracle Theatre – Brighton Fringe and Tour

May 25, 2022 Last updated: May 25, 2022 2:23 pm By John Groves

Everyman: Laura Cairns, Dean Rehman face each other - photo credit Kirstin Prisk - Miracle Theatre.

Everyman is one of the earliest printed plays, originally written in Middle English and first performed around 1510. It is a morality play, popular entertainment designed to put the fear of God into congregations, unable to read or write and used for church services in Latin. Its central character, Everyman, stands as a reminder to every one of us that our time on earth is short and that we should take a cold hard look at our lives before it is too late. The poet laureate, Carol Ann … [Read more...]

Three Decembers presented by Opera della Luna

May 18, 2022 Last updated: May 18, 2022 9:54 pm By John Groves

Opera della Luna's THREE DECEMBERS - (L-R) Llio Evans, Jean-Kristof Bouton, Lucy Schaufer, photo credit Lidia Crisafulli.

“Three Decembers is the finest modern opera that I have seen.” So wrote Chicago reviewer Tom Williams, having seen its premiere in 2008, and I can do no more than concur! Jake Heggie is an American composer, born in 1961, whose style is very approachable: romantic with broad, sweeping melodies: theatrical but never outstaying its welcome. Originally slated to be a commercial two-act “music theatre” production with lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, based on an unpublished play Some Christmas … [Read more...]

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