Category: drama
Review: One Day When We Were Young, Barons Court Theatre
Review: One Day When We Were Young, Barons Court Theatre Oh, the sheer Britishness of it all. This is a play about our national character – our reticence, our inhibitions, our general inability to convey our emotions or to tell people what we actually want to tell them. There’s even talk of the Archers and…
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Review: The Enigma of Edward Elgar, Brighton Fringe
St John The Baptist Church Review: The Enigma of Edward Elgar, Brighton Fringe St John The Baptist Church Actor/pianist Michael Lunts has made a career performing solo, salon-sized shows about the lives and music of great composers and songwriters. He is a charming, charismatic presence, with an admirable fluidity on the piano. His performances of…
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Review: Tonight Will Be a Memory Too, The Playground Theatre
Review: Tonight Will Be a Memory Too, The Playground Theatre Single location, two-character plays can be hard to crack. Even the challenge of keeping an audience engaged in the story can feel momentous. Fortunately, director John Davey has broken this one wide open. Old-married-couple Geoff and Jill face up to the reality of their lives…
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Podcast: Bouncing along with Tom Derrington
Writer Tom Derrington on bringing his play Bounce to Lion and Unicorn Theatre Tom Derrington has been entertaining us already this year with his monthly diary, detailing just what a writer gets up to when trying to get his plays on to the stage. You can read his monthly entries here. Back in March he…
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Review: The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Bridge House Theatre
Review: The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Bridge House Theatre Sir Henry Baskerville (an excellent Mark Beauchamp) returns from abroad to claim his family heritage after the suspicious death of his uncle. He has inherited Baskerville Hall, but has he also inherited the family curse? Set against the eerie backdrop of the moors, we follow Sherlock…
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Review: Absent Friends OSO Arts Centre
Review: Absent Friends OSO Arts Centre Absent Friends is a delicious comedy. Set during an afternoon in the 1970s, it all takes place in a living room complete with a pink leather sofa and psychedelic wallpaper. We follow a group of friends caught up in reminiscing about their past, and through this, they unintentionally examine…
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Review: Rose, Ambassadors Theatre – Everything Theatre
Review: Rose, Ambassadors Theatre When heading to the theatre for a monologue, there’s often a slight sense of trepidation. It’s a masterful skill to be able to hold the attention of an audience with one voice: the story needs to be utterly engaging and the actor must be exceptional. Heading to see the West End…
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Review: Lovefool, The Coronet Theatre
Review: Lovefool, The Coronet Theatre The evening opens with a sex education video (designed by David Gaspar), a close enough parody of one that for a moment I assumed it had really come straight from the archives. It sets the tone for some of the satire to come, so close to real that it bites,…
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Review: Showstopper! The Improvised Musical, Cambridge Theatre
Review: Showstopper! The Improvised Musical, Cambridge Theatre As the title suggests, Showstoppers! The Improvised Musical is indeed an improvised musical with the setting, genre and characters decided by the audience then and there! With the promise that there are no audience plants, the cast and live band are tasked with composing music and a storyline…
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Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s Globe
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s Globe I’ll start with a slightly unusual confession. One of the video tapes I watched on repeat as a child was the 1999 movie version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream – one with an all-star cast that passed me by, but filled with fairies, love, and trouble, that utterly…
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