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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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The Unmarried - Edinburgh Fringe 2017
In the flurry of shows I raced around London in the latter part of July to review under the general banner of ‘Edinburgh Previews’,...
Aug 28, 20173 min read
The Course of True Love - Edinburgh Fringe 2017
I suppose a show called The Course of True Love (which ran smoother than the line from A Midsummer Night’s Dream from which the title...
Aug 27, 20172 min read
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two - Palace Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue
As Matt Trueman pointed out just before press night for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, “spoilers already exist. A single Google...
Aug 21, 20173 min read
Angels in America - National Theatre
A reminder from the National Theatre about this (at the time of writing) being the final week of performances for Angels in America...
Aug 14, 20173 min read
I’ve got a beautiful feelin’ no-one’s immune when you pick out a simple tune
Photo credit: BBC/Mark Allan For various reasons, how most reviewers see a production can vary considerably from the ways in which most...
Aug 13, 20174 min read
Yank! A World War II Love Story - Charing Cross Theatre
Ardent feminists fervently detest Yank! A World War II Love Story, whether they have even seen it or not, mostly because of the emphasis...
Aug 6, 20173 min read
Celine Dion 2017 Tour - The O2 Arena
Photo credit: Angela Lubrano / Livepix I don’t like going to The O2 Arena. It’s too far out, and the transport connections are not...
Jul 30, 20178 min read
The Wedding Singer - Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield
This marks the last time for a little while that I’ll be using East Midlands Trains to get to Sheffield. I have yet to experience a bad...
Jul 24, 20174 min read
The House They Grew Up In - Minerva Theatre, Chichester
Recently on the London Underground someone rather curtly told me to get out of the way so that he could use the interconnecting doors to...
Jul 23, 20174 min read
A Tale of Two Cities - Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
There has to be a first time for everything, I suppose, and this production of A Tale of Two Cities is the first production I’ve come...
Jul 23, 20173 min read
The Trial of Le Singe - The Space Arts Centre
UPDATE: At the request of 'The Heretical Historians' the below post is now a review after all, and published here:...
Jul 13, 20172 min read
Return visits, different principals
Image: (C) Cameron Mackintosh Ltd I noted on social media on my second visit to The Wind in The Willows, which has taken up a summer...
Jul 9, 20175 min read
Love's Labours Lost (the musical) - Hackney Empire
There is always a disparity between the reality on the ground and people’s aspirations. Love’s Labour’s Lost, a musical adaptation of...
Jul 5, 20173 min read
Films: stupid (‘Churchill’) and sublime (‘A Man Called Ove’)
One of these days I will come to accept that music swelling at apparently emotional or poignant moments is a given in motion pictures....
Jun 27, 20173 min read
On The Town - Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
I notice the Metro newspaper couldn’t decide whether to give Bat Out of Hell one star or five stars, and in the end plumped, strangely,...
Jun 27, 20173 min read
This is Not Culturally Significant - The Bunker Theatre
Photo credit: Besell McNamee Better late than never, and mostly because no producer wants press in to review their show on a public...
May 29, 20172 min read
Giggin4Good Presents Songs4Soi - St Paul's, Covent Garden
“I know there was a sound issue, it’s not his [the sound engineer’s] fault, it’s the Church,” quipped either Jordan Langford or Nathan...
May 29, 20175 min read
Caroline, or Change - Minerva Theatre, Chichester
Charlie Gallacher as Noah Gellman, and Sharon D Clarke as Caroline Thibodeaux, in 'Caroline, Or Change'. Photo credit: Marc Brenner. The...
May 29, 20174 min read
Jam - Finborough Theatre
I wonder whether Bella Soroush (Jasmine Hyde) should have toughened up a little. Did nobody tell her when she was doing teacher training...
May 26, 20173 min read
The Addams Family - New Wimbledon Theatre
I came, I saw, I rather enjoyed it. It appears to me that the naysayers who didn’t care much for The Addams Family stage musical...
May 22, 20173 min read
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