Shawshankgate? It is slightly ironic that a show about prison could land it’s Producers in one, but it seems that the Westminster Trading Standards Office are out prima donna-ring the best of us and threatening them with such. Indeed looking at the enormous whirlwind of bureaucratic dust that has been blown up over the alleged misquoting [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Just how aware of soundbites should reviewers be?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Charles Spencer, The Shawshank Redemption on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bold As Brass – Second Run This Week
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bold As Brass, Jon Cooper, St George's Circus, The Duke of Clarence on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bold as Brass is going back up this Thurs (26 Nov) and Sun (29 Nov) at The Duke of Clarence in St George’s Circus. If you missed it the first time make sure you take a trip to Elephant and Castle and enjoy this incredible building and surreally charming show. Do it whilst you still can. To reserve tickets [...]
Wicked – artists who can actually sing! MT Producers take note.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alexia Khadime, Dianne Pilkington, Grease The Musical, Musical Theatre, The Sound of Music, Wicked, Wicked The Musical, Women Of The Future, Women Of The Future Awards on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wicked has singing munchkins, a teaching goat, a green protagonist and a mechanical dragon, which may make the whole thing sound terribly silly. But I can honestly say that it is, well, wicked. And the reason for this prognosis? The outstanding quality of its two stars, Dianne Pilkington and Alexia Khadime, whose vocal skill easily [...]
Bold As Brass
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bold As Brass, Brass Crosby, South London Free Arts Collective, The Duke of Clarence on November 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
At St George’s Circus there is a performance going on in the midst of an atmospheric building with a fading grandeur and massive holes in the floor. Lit only by lights wired to a generator, candles and torches, the members of the South London Free Arts Collective (SLFAC) are performing the quirky and uplifting story [...]
This much is true and I’m not pulling any punches.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Jean Charles de Menezes, Peter Unwin, Sarah Beck, Theatre 503, This Much Is True, Verbatim theatre on November 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Sally Stott has written an interesting and seemingly controversial blog asking the question already buzzing around my own head since seeing This Much Is True. The Theatre 503 show is the newest play to deal with the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. Sally posits the idea that, in the light of the two productions [...]
The Suspense Festival 2009
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Inkfish, Little Angel Theatre, TAM TAM, The Brain, The Suspense Festival, To Have Or Not To Have on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was lucky enough to catch two shows at The Suspense Festival this year. Suspense is an adult puppet festival organised by The Little Angel Theatre, a hidden gem in the middle of Islington. Both pieces I saw were incredibly impressive, with a real sense of artisanship and integrity present which is annoyingly not always [...]
Origin of The Species at The Arcola
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bryony Lavery, Clare-Hope Ashitey, Marjorie Yates, Origin of The Species, The Arcola, The Olduvai Gorge, Tom Littler on November 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Bryony Lavery’s unique voice rings out clearly in this richly feminine exploration into the origin of the species. A fantastical hybrid of past, present and future, her two protagonists, Molly and Victoria, meet in extraordinary circumstances and form a bond which spans mother and daughter, teacher and pupil, ancestor and progeny. Lavery’s piece succeeds magnificently [...]
Periods of upheaval; scary but essential.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Attempts on Her Life, Braham Murray, Coney, Greg Hersov, Ignition, Jasmine Cullingford, Katie Mitchell, Laura Kriefman, Manchester Royal Exchange, Max Stafford Clark, Nicholas Hytner, Punchdrunk, The Blue Elephant Theatre, The Factory, The National Theatre, The Waves, Theatre Derevo, Theatre du Complicite, Tristan Bates Theatre on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So the observant (and faithful!) of you will have noticed that I have been absent from this blog for the last 2 months. I won’t make excuses, but this has been due to a massive bout of upheaval and hopefully the last move I’m going to have to make for a long time. Now that [...]
