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.

Over the next few weeks and months I'll be working on restoring the blog posts from the previous website. Thanks for stopping by!

Jan 22, 2017
3 min

In the Depths of Dead Love - Print Room at the Coronet

The last major protest that comes to mind against a theatre production in London was one headed by the religious extremist group...

Jan 22, 2017
3 min

Manchester By The Sea

There’s a definite independent movie feel to Manchester By The Sea – the ‘Manchester’ in question is a coastal town in Massachusetts,...

Jan 11, 2017
3 min

The Kite Runner - Wyndham's Theatre

What’s surprising about this theatrical adaptation of The Kite Runner is that its world premiere was as long ago as March 2009 – it’s...

Jan 11, 2017
3 min

BU21 - Trafalgar Studio 2

(Photo credit: David Monteith-Hodge) Set in the near future, the 22 July “immediately after the date of performance” as directed by a...

Jan 10, 2017
3 min

On the subject of La La Land

I didn’t realise it was still possible to even get financial backing for an old-style film like La La Land, with borderline absurd...

Jan 3, 2017
3 min

The Woman in Black - Fortune Theatre

“Every show,” the website for The Woman in Black West End play warns, will contain a school party. That was enough to put me off for...

Dec 31, 2016
2 min

She Loves Me - Menier Chocolate Factory

One of those shows that is very silly, and it knows it, She Loves Me is a bit of a let-down in its sheer repetitiveness. Two instances...

Dec 30, 2016
11 min

A look back at 2016

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...” As it was in 1859 when Charles Dickens had his A Tale of Two Cities published,...

Dec 29, 2016
2 min

Gatsby - Leicester Square Theatre

When I previously saw Gatsby during its Union Theatre run back in April 2016, I pointed out that “it could do with some tightening and...

Dec 18, 2016
4 min

This is NOT a review of @WestEndMT ‘West End Sings at Christmas

I had informed the good people at ‘West End Musical Theatre’, a ‘weekly elite training’ programme for young musical theatre performers...

Dec 18, 2016
3 min

Cinderella at the London Palladium

“The amount of sexual innuendo in that show was ridiculous,” came the exit poll verdict from a fellow theatregoer as we filed out of...

Dec 16, 2016
5 min

The Collective Project 2016 - Tristan Bates Theatre

The wonderful thing from a reviewer’s perspective about events like The Collective Project is that not only is it fruitless to do any...

Dec 13, 2016
3 min

Christmas - Theatre N16

The rather unimaginatively titled Christmas does, at least, provide an alternative scenario to the near-relentless cheery moods so many...

Dec 13, 2016
3 min

The Snow Queen - Theatre N16

It’s what lies beneath the surface in The Snow Queen that gives this production much more than what is immediately visible at first...

Dec 12, 2016
3 min

Waking Up Dead! - Safeword Theatre UK

“There are no children from this marriage,” the programme for Safeword Theatre UK’s Waking Up Dead! almost tersely states. Not that this...

Feb 28, 2016
7 min

A considered response to The Book of Mormon musical

This is, I think, the first time I’ve looked at the musical The Book of Mormon with my ‘reviewer hat’ on. Except even this time I wasn’t...

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