I wonder if there is a place for the likes of Timothy Bond. It’s not that he doesn’t like Christmas, but that it’s rolled around again too soon, and time spent away from his family means he isn’t going to enjoy it anyway, so he may as well not bother this year. Could Christmas be like the … [Read more...]
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Fiddler on the Roof at the Menier Chocolate Factory | Review
As we get to the end of another year of reviewing, my mind has turned to the traditional list of my top ten shows for 2018. It was pretty much settled until last night when a visit to the Menier Chocolate Factory to see the new production of Fiddler on The Roof has caused a rethink in the … [Read more...]
Nine Night by Natasha Gordon at Trafalgar Studios | Review
The whole show is set in the kitchen of a London home, although some scene changes still take a little time, as there are props that need shifting. Audiences at Nine Night do not see the funeral of Lorraine’s (Natasha Gordon) mother Gloria: just as well, as someone with Caribbean roots said to me … [Read more...]
VIOLET at The Bunker Theatre | Review
Twenty-seven-year-old Bertie is lost, adrift in the chaos that is the modern metropolitan existence. She flees the city and takes refuge in a sleepy seaside resort, house-sitting for her cousin, where she indulges in a depressive spiral, with enough self-awareness to identify the narcissistic … [Read more...]
The Box of Delights at Wilton’s Music Hall | Review
Before Narnia, and long before Hogwarts, there was a book where children were the heroes encountering magic, good versus evil and the saving of Christmas. The book, written by John Masefield was The Box of Delights and 83 years later, Piers Torday’s adaptation of the story opens once more at … [Read more...]
Review of Cinderella at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley
Every provincial theatre has to have a pantomime every year and most of them are produced by QDOS “the world’s biggest pantomime producer” who this year are putting on over thirty pantos up and down the land including Snow White at the London Palladium – and you don’t get much bigger than … [Read more...]
Jailbirds at the Etcetera Theatre | Review
It is impossible to get too spooked by anything that happens in Jailbirds: time and again, the momentary (and deliberate) on-stage presence of director Luke Culloty, guiding and realigning, is a reminder that this is stagecraft. As tends to be the case with futuristic shows, not everything quite … [Read more...]