Welcome to The Crazy Chris Website

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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!

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour

Two hours and forty-eight minutes and no interval. That would be quite tortuous for a theatre show, and indeed at the cinema screening of...

Oct 14, 20234 min read

Melonade - Camden People's Theatre

I only went to this show at the invitation of the Camden People’s Theatre, who offered me a complimentary ticket, as I was there anyway...

Oct 12, 20233 min read

Bowie Experience - New Wimbledon Theatre

There is The Bowie Experience, headed by Laurence Knight, which has apparently been doing the rounds since 1997. And then there’s Bowie...

Oct 8, 20232 min read

It's Her Turn Now - The Mill at Sonning

Michael J Barfoot’s adaptation of Ray Cooney’s Out of Order has been modernised to an extent, although it’s telling when Rebecca Willey...

Oct 8, 20232 min read

Noises Off - Theatre Royal Haymarket

It seems slightly odd that in a world that seems so much more chaotic than it was when Noises Off premiered in 1982 that a show, as well...

Oct 8, 20233 min read

The Little Big Things - @sohoplace

This show has the potential, if the producers play their cards right, to run and run. It would have to adapt to go out on tour: the show...

Sep 16, 20234 min read

Oppenheimer (2023 film)

I am reminded of a social media post I responded to about someone who went to the first preview of a new production in London. The...

Sep 6, 20233 min read

Next to Normal - Donmar Warehouse

There’s been some debate in theatrical circles about spoilers in reviews, specifically with regards to the London production of Next to...

Sep 5, 20232 min read

Barbie (2023 film)

According to the movie’s own narrative, before the Barbie doll was invented (by, as it is much later revealed in the film, by Ruth...

Sep 3, 20233 min read

Edinburgh Fringe 2023: #FillYerBoots

Birthmarked, starring Brook Tate. Photo credit: Paul Blakemore. Well, it was different this year. The ‘100 second challenge’ hadn’t...

Aug 28, 20235 min read

A Little Life - Savoy Theatre

“I don’t like it, but I have to stay,” a man in my row sighed to a fellow theatregoer during the interval, referring to his wife being...

Aug 6, 20234 min read

Cuckoo - Royal Court

It was bound to happen at some point. An audience at the theatre is requested to switch off their mobile phones and other electronic...

Aug 6, 20233 min read

Miss Saigon - Crucible Theatre

I doubt Miss Saigon would have been written today, or at least not in the way in which even this non-replica production, only made...

Jul 30, 20234 min read

The Sound of Music - Chichester Festival Theatre

It’s possible that I missed it, of course, but I didn’t see any ‘trigger warnings’ in the programme for Chichester Festival Theatre’s...

Jul 17, 20233 min read

Jack Whitehall: Settle Down - The O2 Arena

Tom Lucy, 26 years old (I didn’t look that up – that’s how old he said he was, and I’m taking him at his word), gave possibly the...

Jul 17, 20234 min read

Carousel - Royal Academy of Music

I mean, it’s Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel, revived in this student production without a radical reinterpretation, which is more than...

Jul 7, 20232 min read

Tarentino Live - Riverside Studios

“…we’ve taken the decision, due to various production delays, to postpone the press night for Tarantino Live at Riverside Studios” Well,...

Jun 17, 20233 min read

Jane Eyre (musical) - Royal Academy of Music

Some fellow audience members observed during the interval how this production is largely female led (well, there’s a clue in the title)...

Jun 16, 20233 min read

Bleak Expectations - Criterion Theatre

One of those shows with an acquired sense of humour, Bleak Expectations likes to make itself relevant by inserting topical references. By...

Jun 4, 20233 min read

Reality (2023 film)

Nothing is particularly surprising in Reality, which takes its name from its main character, Reality Winner (Sydney Sweeney) – don’t you...

Jun 2, 20233 min read

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