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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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Les Mis at 37 and Mamma Mia muckup matinee
It’s fascinating, at least to me, to discover, or rather re-discover, what it is like to step away from the reviewing circuit and...
Oct 9, 20223 min read
Magic at the Musicals 2022
On the day Dear Evan Hansen played its final Broadway performance, Sam Tutty, who still (for a few more weeks until the show plays its...
Sep 19, 20224 min read
Last (not quite mid) night thoughts: Into The Woods, Theatre Royal Bath
According to the New York Times (yes, I had to go to an American publication to find out a bit more), the co-director of this production...
Sep 11, 20225 min read
Some thoughts on Edinburgh Fringe 2022
I overdid it at the Edinburgh festivals this August, so much so that I was quietly grateful when the Edinburgh International Festival...
Aug 28, 20225 min read
Edinburgh Fringe 2022 stinkers
During this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, I filed 63 reviews, published on londontheatre1.com for anyone who wants to have a look....
Aug 28, 20224 min read
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...
Aug 7, 20224 min read
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 28, 20223 min read
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 23, 20223 min read
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...
Jul 9, 20224 min read
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 12, 20222 min read
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...
May 5, 20223 min read
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 30, 20226 min read
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 24, 20223 min read
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...
Apr 20, 20222 min read
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 14, 20223 min read
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 7, 20223 min read
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...
Feb 4, 20222 min read
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 10, 20224 min read
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 9, 20223 min read
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...
Jan 6, 20222 min read
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