Oslo - National Theatre
Chaos and order, order and chaos, and then a gentlemen’s agreement, in principle, but terms and conditions apply. Oslo, a play about the...
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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.
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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- Sep 17, 2017
- 4 min
Pippin The Musical - Hope Mill Theatre
It takes a lot to get me out of London to see shows elsewhere, but such was the fuss being made in certain quarters about the Hope Mill...
- Sep 13, 2017
- 3 min
The Blinding Light - Jermyn Street Theatre
The set is in some disorder in The Blinding Light, quite deliberately, to depict the state of mind of August Strindberg (Jasper Britton),...
- Aug 28, 2017
- 5 min
Free music, an ejected heckler and a lot of laughs - Edinburgh Fringe 2017
As Edinburgh is a long way to go from London just for (separate) matinee and evening shows featuring people I’ve come to know over time,...
- Aug 28, 2017
- 3 min
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, 2017
- 4 min
Late Company - Trafalgar Studio 2
To its credit, it’s a little while before it’s entirely clear what Late Company is really all about. But once the penny dropped, I had an...
- Aug 27, 2017
- 2 min
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 21, 2017
- 3 min
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 14, 2017
- 3 min
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 13, 2017
- 4 min
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 6, 2017
- 3 min
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...
- Jul 30, 2017
- 8 min
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 24, 2017
- 4 min
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 23, 2017
- 3 min
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, 2017
- 4 min
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 13, 2017
- 2 min
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 9, 2017
- 5 min
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 5, 2017
- 3 min
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...
- Jun 27, 2017
- 3 min
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, 2017
- 3 min
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....
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