Edinburgh Fringe smash hit MARGARET THATCHER – QUEEN OF GAME SHOWS comes to the Underbelly Festival
DING DONG THE WITCH IS BACK! In a world of referendums, Brexit, Trump and overall turmoil, the multi – award winning Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho returns to the Underbelly Festival in 2017 to provide relief with the most fabulous game show of all! Fresh from a total sell-out Edinburgh Festival Fringe run in August […]
How does the Broadway version of CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY compare to London?
I’ve just returned from New York where I decided to extend my stay by three days so that I could catch the first preview of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I had heard stories about how much it had been changed from the London production and so, although I wasn’t massively keen on the original […]
REVIEW: SAM BAILEY (Orchard Theatre) ★★★★
2013 X Factor winner Sam Bailey released her second album Sing My Heart Out in September 2016 and is half way through an extensive UK tour, promoting the album and performing live to her fans. I went along to check out the show on Sam’s first of two nights in her home town of Dartford […]
REVIEW: THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE (Greenwich Theatre) ★★★★
Brecht was a German Marxist playwright and poet. He died in 1956 at the comparatively young age of 58 years, having survived the Second World War. He believed that a play should not cause the spectator to identify emotionally with the characters or action before them, but should instead provoke rational self-reflection and a critical […]
REVIEW: RUN (The Bunker) ★★★
Run is the dramatic story of a seventeen year old Jewish gay youth, Yonni. His forceful, dominating mother, Devorah, embarrasses him in front of his school friends. Not a good precursor to the summer holidays. But then, in the playground, he meets Adam and everything is suddenly different. There is a mutual attraction between them and […]
Should theatre’s have better security in place?
As the lights went down at Sam Bailey‘s concert last night at the Orchard Theatre in her hometown of Dartford, a group of paralytic women took their seats near the back of the auditorium, two rows behind where I was sitting. An announcement from Sam Bailey herself came over the tannoy, saying that she was […]