Millennials - The Other Palace
The thing about going to a show long after press night is that I get to see how an audience that isn’t packed to the rafters with friends...
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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.
Over the next few weeks and months I'll be working on restoring the blog posts from the previous website. Thanks for stopping by!
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- Jul 28, 2022
- 3 min
A-Typical Rainbow - Turbine Theatre
There are, I suspect, people whose experiences of neurodiversity in the home are markedly different from that of Boy (Conor Joseph at the...
- Jul 23, 2022
- 3 min
Prima Facie - NT Live
It’s as powerful and intense as many others who have seen Prima Facie says it is. I don’t disagree with the praises being showered on...
- Jul 9, 2022
- 4 min
The Light in the Piazza/Merrily We Roll Along - Royal Academy of Music
I read with interest a social media comment about London not being quite the same as it was pre-pandemic. Of course it isn’t, for many...
- May 12, 2022
- 2 min
An Intervention - Riverside Studios
This is a play that could have been pacier: the lack of scenery, or anything in the way of set or props aside from some tautly wrapped...
- May 5, 2022
- 3 min
Hail to the understudies at Bonnie & Clyde
It is often argued, with justification, that when roles are performed by understudies, it’s pretty much the same experience. It’s the...
- Apr 30, 2022
- 6 min
Les Misérables - Milton Keynes Theatre
Nic Greenshields as Javert. Photo credit: Matthew Murphy I love being able to, every so often, step off the reviewing circuit and attend...
- Apr 24, 2022
- 3 min
The 47th - The Old Vic
I only went to see The 47th on the back of positive feedback from other theatregoers and critics. It wasn’t so much a case of...
- Apr 20, 2022
- 2 min
The Taxidermist's Daughter - Chichester Festival Theatre
The already vast Chichester Festival Theatre stage space expands further than usual in The Taxidermist’s Daughter, with screens on either...
- Feb 14, 2022
- 3 min
Keala Settle - Cadogan Hall
Photo credit: Fourth Wall Live Stories of inconsiderate audience behaviour will always do the rounds, and I had the ‘privilege’ (inverted...
- Feb 7, 2022
- 3 min
Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of) - Criterion Theatre
The theatre had run out of programmes by the time I got round to seeing Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of) – on its final performance at the...
- Feb 4, 2022
- 2 min
A Night with No Name - Cadogan Hall
I knew very little about The Choir with No Name before A Night with No Name, their London branch’s fundraising gala evening at Cadogan...
- Jan 10, 2022
- 4 min
Live theatre in a pandemic
I saw a few shows recently as a punter and not as someone who has come to the theatre to review a production. It was interesting to...
- Jan 9, 2022
- 3 min
David Suchet: Poirot and More - A Retrospective
It’s an odd thing, really, to be sat in a theatre listening to Sir David Suchet reminisce about his twenty-five years playing Hercule...
- Jan 6, 2022
- 2 min
Non-review of 2021
Samuel Thomas, an actor, tweeted on 29 December 2021 that his New Year’s resolution for 2022 is “to continue living life without the...
- Dec 13, 2021
- 3 min
West Side Story - 2021 movie
WHY? It’s the question in the back on my mind ever since I became aware there was a new version of West Side Story hitting cinema...
- Dec 12, 2021
- 3 min
Evie Rose Lane - Lola's Underground Casino
I hadn’t heard of Evie Rose Lane before she was a guest at a Danielle Steers concert, one that was postponed several times due to...
- Dec 3, 2021
- 3 min
Life of Pi - Wyndham's Theatre
Those familiar with the novel Life of Pi may – should they wish to indulge in the pleasure – have fun in spotting what elements of the...
- Nov 23, 2021
- 3 min
tick, tick... BOOM! (2021 film)
What works as a ninety-minute one-act musical is too long as just under two hours in the cinema, even factoring in for the ten-minute...
- Sep 11, 2021
- 3 min
Bat Out of Hell - Manchester Opera House
Welcome to Spoiler Central. Do not read on if for whatever reason (usually because you haven’t seen it for yourself yet) you do not wish...
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