Claire Sweeney chats about starring in CRAZY FOR YOU
We caught up with television and theatre performer, Claire Sweeney, as she prepares to take on the role of Irene Roth in the UK Tour of Crazy For You alongside ‘Casualty’ and ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ star Tom Chambers and Olivier Award nominee Charlotte Wakefield. What attracted you to the role of Irene Roth in Crazy […]
REVIEW: Osric Omand and the Story of Hope ★★★★ (Drayton Arms Theatre)
Well – what was that?! Last night I saw the closing night of Osric Omand and the Story of Hope and I am none the wiser. Billed as a ‘horror-action-comedy’ it certainly delivered all three elements, although the comedy was the pervading influence throughout the whole piece. In fact, it was the funniest thing I […]
REVIEW: Austentacious (Piccadilly theatre) ★★★★
Imagine what a lost Jane Austen novel might look like and perhaps you’d come up with something akin to ‘Seasonings and Seasonality’ – at least that’s the audience suggestion that won the day in Austentacious at the Piccadilly theatre this week. Fully improvised across 90 minutes, the show was suitably peppered with jokes and some […]
REVIEW: BOAT PEOPLE (Pentameters Theatre) ★★★
Boat People is a confident first outing from emerging playwright, Emma Park, with a mini courtroom drama, packed with dramatic testimony. In the High Court, before a sedate Mr Justice Barebones, (Bryan Hands), the animated Captain Papangelos (played expertly by Giorgio Galassi) is called as a witness, in defence of his employers. The captain is pitted against […]
REVIEW: Thriller Live (Sunderland Empire) ★★★★
Thriller Live was performed in the West End for the first time in 2006, embarking on its first UK tour and eventually finding a home at Lyric Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue in 2008, making it one of the longest running shows in the West End. With tours and shows currently playing in over 31 different […]
REVIEW: GIRLS AND BOYS (Royal Court) ★★★★★
My love for both Dennis Kelly and Carey Mulligan – possibly equal in measure – meant I approached this production with the cool trepidation all reasonably self-aware fangirls should channel: don’t be biased, remain objective and neither scream nor cry. I just about managed it. Girls and Boys is brilliant because it’s such a precious […]
REVIEW: Anti Valentine’s Ball (Royal Vauxhall Tavern) ★★★★
Valentine’s Day is, without question, the most loathed socio-cultural pressure-pot that the world has ever kept repeating. Single? Hate it. In a relationship? Still deep down hate it. Don’t give a crap about it? There’s still a part of you that hates it. Because it adds so much goddamn pressure. But what if this was […]
REVIEW: COTTON (Waterloo East Theatre) ★★
The world of e-sports and professional gaming is growing. Although still a relatively niche area of the entertainment industry, it is slowly but surely gaining traction and making its way into the spotlight. Cotton, by new playwright Alex Benjamin, tells the story of those who enjoy fame and glory in the digital world struggling to […]
Week Four Living In Paris – the worst experiences in life can be your greatest lessons
I can’t believe that I’ve been living in Paris for a whole month now! This week has been full of lessons and here are some of the things I have found out this week! If I actually listen to what people say I might understand I realised this week that when someone tries to speak […]
David Walliams chats about the UK Tour of AWFUL AUNTIE
What or who inspired Awful Auntie? It may not be the answer you were expecting but I am obsessed with the film ‘The Shining’. I wanted to create a horror story where a child was trapped in a house with a dangerous relative, cut off from the outside world. As for the character herself I […]