Small Things Like These (2024 film)
It’s a bloody slow burner, this movie, and if it were something I were watching at home, I’d almost certainly not have bothered sticking...
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Welcome to The Crazy Chris Website
Loving London life...
Hello and welcome. This is the third version of my personal site - the first two just developed technical problems which I couldn't resolve so I had to start over. Basically it's mostly about theatre as that's where I often find myself outside of work. I'm still not technologically minded so this one might well fail too at some point.
One of these days I might get around to putting up old content from the previous websites. Thanks for stopping by!
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Nov 42 min read
The Apprentice (2024 movie)
For all the criticisms of the likes of Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves never having run a business before, and therefore being quite...
Oct 303 min read
Defying Gravity: West End Women - Adelphi Theatre
Tuesday nights at the Adelphi Theatre on the Strand are usually taken up by concerts and gigs. It’s the ‘dark’ day for Back to the Future...
Oct 182 min read
Jake Lambert: The Sunshine Kid - Leicester Square Theatre
Seeing as Jake Lambert’s people are still using my five star review from Edinburgh Fringe 2022 on their marketing for his 2024/25 tour,...
Oct 63 min read
The Critic (2023 movie)
There are no star ratings in the reviews in The Critic , which means I can get away without one too. (Ner ner.) It starts off being about...
Oct 63 min read
The Outrun (2024 movie)
I fell for the celebrity trap. I don’t even know if I’m using the right term by saying ‘the celebrity trap’ but I went to see The Outrun...
Oct 63 min read
Lee (2023 movie)
Someone who liked to take photographs lived during the time of the Second World War and therefore harnessed opportunities to combine...
Sep 13 min read
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold - Minerva Theatre, Chichester
On my previous trip to Chichester this summer, Southern Railway proved to be a letdown yet again (though I still made it to a performance...
Aug 278 min read
Reflections on Edinburgh Fringe 2024
Ali Woods: At the Moment, at Underbelly Bristo Square Well, every Fringe is different, I suppose, and the overall number of reviewers,...
Aug 102 min read
Oliver! - Chichester Festival Theatre
I’ve no idea who played the title character in this production of Oliver! – I’m not on the press list for Chichester Festival Theatre...
Jun 284 min read
Into The Woods / Musical Theatre Cabaret - Royal Academy of Music
I’ll be brief. I’m conscious that I once started by saying that when I wrote a piece about Bat Out of Hell the Musical, which eventually...
May 263 min read
Barry Manilow - London Palladium
Jimmy Tarbuck’s warm-up act was best summarised as, “Be still my beating heart! Oh. It is.” His light humour hasn’t changed over the...
Apr 13 min read
Opening Night - Gielgud Theatre
It is true that not everybody that was seated in the Gielgud Theatre just before 7:30pm was still there just before 10:00pm, although...
Mar 304 min read
For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy
For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy is incredibly broad – six young men, often with diametrically...
Mar 104 min read
Cable Street - Southwark Playhouse
The director of this show, Adam Lenson, has been very vocal about Jewish representation, or what he perceives to be the lack of it, on...
Feb 263 min read
Poor Things (2023 film)
Possibly one of the oddest films I’ve ever sat through (and I’m fully aware that if someone were to ask me if I’ve seen such-and-such a...
Jan 283 min read
The National Lottery's Big Night of Musicals 2024
There’s the Post Office scandal, in which some of its senior staff still somehow believe miscellaneous subpostmasters were guilty of...
Jan 284 min read
The Color Purple / All of Us Strangers
I saw two films recently, on separate weekends, and I wasn’t going to bother saying anything about either of them, as I thought they were...
Jan 81 min read
How to keep your home safe from burglars
Lock your doors and windows every time you leave the house, even when you're just in the garden. Hide all keys, including car keys, out...
Jan 42 min read
Some quirky stories
Leave a message after the moo A Devon farmer lost his mobile phone after accidentally inserting it into the rear end of a cow while using...
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