One Man, Two Guvnors is hilariously funny. I thought I would just come out and say it. For the last two years I’ve heard nothing but good things about it from friends, from professionals and from friends that are professionals. It seems like there isn’t enough praise for a show that, from what I could gather used pretty broad humour. In that time the role of Francis Henshall, originated by James Corden seems to have become a thing of legend, a modern day Hamlet and why, because One Man, Two … [Read more...]
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Review of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory October 2013
Another Roald Dahl book turned into a musical has hit the West End like a storm (after the very successful Matilda, an RSC production which has been running for nearly 2 years at the Cambridge Theatre where it moved after sell out performances at Stratford-Upon-Avon) and it is as sugary as the title suggests. Although I missed bits of the illustrated start of the show due to latecomers and noisy members of the audience (which were not only children), I got immersed into the story fairly … [Read more...]
Review of Fresh Off The Boat! Hen and Chickens Theatre
The ladies of Paradigm Theatre Company have succeeded in doing something I honestly didn’t believe was possible; deliver a fresh, original perspective on the subject of immigration. Here you will find no limping clichés, no ponderous finger-wagging; rather a couple of one-act tales which entertain, surprise and appal in equal measure. A Border Story is an autobiographical account of the tribulations suffered by the American writer, Sarah Pitard, when trying to obtain a visa to remain in the … [Read more...]
Review of iD by Cirque Eloize at The Peacock Theatre
iD is a brand new show by Cirque Eloize, currently playing at The Peacock Theatre in Holborn, London. Cirque Eloize was founded by Jeannot Painchaud, Daniel Cyr and Julie Hamelin in Quebec, Canada in 1993. The company is currently made up of 15 unbelievably talented and highly skilled performers, and is directed by Jeannot Painchaud. This vibrant and dynamic company have produced a world-class show that has to be seen to be believed. Cirque Eloize have created a fusion of circus acts, … [Read more...]
Review of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Noel Coward Theatre
With Shakespeare, you either get it or you don’t. I don’t usually “get it”. However, the Michael Grandage’s version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Noel Coward Theatre had me embraced from the word go. With a beautiful set, gorgeous costumes (or lack of - I shall explain later) and spell-binding acting, this production is not one to miss. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is probably one of the easiest of Shakespeare’s plays to understand and although at some points I was completely baffled by … [Read more...]
Review of The Phantom of the Opera with Geronimo Rauch as The Phantom
The Phantom of The Opera… a mystery never fully explained. Well, that may be so, but as one of the West End’s longest running shows it is safe to say that many will know what the musical is about. Even if the story is unknown, what is guaranteed are the lavish costumes, vast sets and songs which you will definitely have heard, intentionally or otherwise. If you are after drama and a spectacle then this is absolutely the right show. As you walk in, you are faced with a stage full of dust … [Read more...]
Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen directed by Stephen Unwin at The Rose Theatre Kingston
Where was Ibsen to go after A Doll’s House? Having articulated the proto-feminist rage of Nora in her marital bondage, what was the next dust-sheet he would pull from his country’s bourgeois and professional interior? Ghosts holds the answer, and there is both a moral and chronological consistency in this production at Kingston’s Rose by English Touring Theatre coming so soon after The Young Vic’s presentation of the preceding work. What a difference a century makes. Incest, infidelity, … [Read more...]