Full casting is announced today for the new spectacular production of Zorro The Musical which will run at the Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester from 14 March – 18 April 2020, with opening night for press on 18 March, directed by Christian Durham. The show will be brought to life by a cast including Antony Costa as Garcia, Alex Gibson-Giorgio as Ramon, Emma Kingston as Luisa, Genevieve Nicole as Inez, Kit Orton as Don Alejandro and Benjamin Purkiss as the masked hero, Zorro. The cast is completed … [Read more...]
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Broken Romantics: A Unicorn’s Quest for Love | Review
Daniel Sloss encouraged his Edinburgh Fringe audiences to “go and see weird sh*t”, a call to step out of one’s comfort zone and see something one wouldn’t ordinarily book for. Broken Romantics: A Unicorn’s Quest for Love fits the ‘weird sh*t’ bill for me, and as Emma Dean kept singing, “I am a f**king unicorn” repeatedly, I wondered a) what on earth I was sitting through and b) who or what is the unicorn having relations with? I never did find out the answer to the second question. As to the … [Read more...]
Mother and daughter duo cast in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice at Park Theatre
Mother and daughter duo Rafaella Hutchinson and Sally George are to be the first ever family pairing to star as the reclusive Little Voice and meddling mother Mari in Jim Cartwright’s The Rise and Fall of Little Voice. The new production coming to Park Theatre, directed by Tom Latter and Associate directed by Anita Dobson, will also feature Linford Johnson, Kevin McMonagle, Jamie-Rose Monk and Shaun Prendergast in the much-beloved story of an undiscovered and introverted virtuoso thrust into the … [Read more...]
Review of Biting Block Theatre’s Catching Up at TheatreN16
Best friends at Uni, the cool and collected Becka nursed the needy and naive Flo through three years of Spanish at Bristol, clearing up her sick, paying off taxi drivers and always ‘being there’ for her vulnerable buddy. But did she really see Flo as a human being; or as an acolyte, a posture to better display her gilded ego? A working-class chum as the perfect fashion accessory for the poor little rich girl. Because back in London post-graduation, on opposite sides of the river and very … [Read more...]
Review of Oh No It Isn’t at The Hope Theatre
From time to time the showbusiness columns, whether in print or online or both, will have a juicy story about backstage shenanigans, or perhaps an actor losing their temper and getting irate at someone in the audience messaging an acquaintance on their mobile phone. Or perhaps somebody considered by certain columnists to be well-known enough to be singled out in coverage about a show ‘dries up’ and can’t recall their lines. But what if someone really oversteps the line, finds themselves saying … [Read more...]