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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 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 11, 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
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 13, 20213 min read
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 13, 20213 min read
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...
Dec 3, 20213 min read
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...
Nov 23, 20213 min read
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...
Sep 12, 20213 min read
Mrs Lowry and Son
Back in the days when theatre tickets were reasonable (we’re talking 2013 in this case) I used to see practically everything in Trafalgar...
Aug 30, 20192 min read
On Your Feet! - London Coliseum
The story of Emilio (Georgie Ioannides) and Gloria Estefan (Christie Prades), as On Your Feet! is subtitled, is a good one but their...
Aug 28, 20193 min read
Making Noise Quietly
This trilogy of short plays, Making Noise Quietly, would have worked better as a motion picture if it had taken bolder steps to adapt its...
Aug 27, 20193 min read
Fleabag - Wyndham's Theatre
I really don’t watch television these days, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a fairly new thing in my calendar (and may yet, the...
Aug 26, 20192 min read
Reflections on Edinburgh Fringe 2019
A shorter list of non-reviewed shows to write about for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, as there weren’t that many shows that I wasn’t...
Aug 24, 20196 min read
Rob Bell - An Introduction to Joy | Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019
Now this is a departure from the usual Edinburgh Fringe staple diet of straight plays and stand-up comedy sets: An Introduction to Joy,...
Aug 19, 20192 min read
Matthew Bourne's Romeo + Juliet - Sadler's Wells Theatre
Ah yes, a handgun in a production of Romeo + Juliet. Or is it Romeo & Juliet? Or plain old Romeo and Juliet? There’s even a pop music...
Aug 8, 20193 min read
The Girl on the Train - Duke of York's Theatre
There are, I suppose, very few theatrical adaptations of books that are as gripping as the books themselves. Now, this may be an...
Aug 5, 20193 min read
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