REVIEW: THE TWINS MACABRE: SLAY (Vault Festival) ★★★★★
Slay is the latest outpouring from the very warped, weird, and hilariously funny, Twins Macabre. These delightful ‘ten-year-old’ serial killers have found fame and fortune – glorified by the British gutter press and celebrated on social media alike. Billed as; ‘Comedy. Horror and Sass’, there is more sass than horror and more comedy than you […]
REVIEW: ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER UNMASKED: THE PLATINUM COLLECTION ★★★★
This week, musical theatre composer Andrew Lloyd Webber celebrates his 70th birthday and to commemorate this milestone achievement, a greatest hits collection of his work is being released on Friday 16 March, 2018. Featuring songs from the start of his career (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat) to his latest work almost fifty years on […]
REVIEW: PRISCILLA FOLLE DU DESERT (Casino de Paris) ★
Priscilla Queen Of The Desert is the much loved cult classic film about three Australian drag queens who buy a clapped out old bus, paint it fluorescent pink and attempt to drive it 3,000km from Sydney to Alice Springs, in the centre of Australia, to perform at a run down casino. As they drive deeper […]
REVIEW: SOME MOTHERS DO ‘AVE ‘EM (Richmond Theatre) ★
The 1970’s was an era famous for ABBA, handlebar moustaches and revolutionary television sitcoms that set a standard for years to come. Amongst such classics as ‘Are You Being Served?’, ‘Fawlty Towers’ and ‘Porridge’ was the creation of ‘Frank Spencer’ in ‘Some Mothers Do ‘Ave Em’. A programme about a hapless, loveable yet idiotic character […]
REVIEW: SHERIDAN (Sheridan Smith) ★★★
Sheridan Smith has been lighting up the stage and screen for the last twenty years and has won a whole host of awards for her television and theatre work. From Two Pints of Larger and a Packet Of Crisps, Gavin and Stacey and more recently Cilla to Legally Blonde and Funny Girl in the West […]
REVIEW: Natasha Barnes may not consider herself a ‘Supermodel’ but she is a REAL superstar ★★★★★
Full disclosure; when musical theatre actors release albums and fill them with original songs, I sometimes roll my eyes. I like musical theatre performers to release albums of musical theatre songs. So when Natasha Barnes‘s album REAL fell through the letterbox, I scanned the track listing and was disappointed that the only musical theatre song […]
REVIEW: THE STRONGBOX (Vault Festival) ★★★★
I trudged through the snow and freezing wind on Thursday 1st March to watch The Strongbox as a part of the acclaimed Vaults Festival – and I wasn’t disappointed. The play is not for the fainthearted – a bleak study of the symbiotic nature of abusive relationships, all set in one room over a period […]
REVIEW: DAS FEST (The Vaults) ★★
Philipp Oberlohr walked away with the People’s Choice Award at last year’s Vaults Festival. This year he returns with his newest spectacle Das Fest. The title translates to ‘party’, or as he puts it, a celebration – of the audience’s past and future. However, a party it is not. Oberlohr only alludes to this supposed […]
REVIEW: HIDDEN FIGURES (The Colab Factory) ★★★★
Having previously seen some fantastic immersive theatre performances and having no idea what to expect from each, I waited outside The Colab Factory, as instructed, until seeing a ‘Civil Defence Volunteer’ in full 1940s period dress. Passwords exchanged, I was admitted … so far so usual (for immersive events. The apparent civil defender, Paul King […]
REVIEW: LOVE FROM A STRANGER (Royal & Derngate) ★★★
There’s no doubt that Agatha Christie is one of the great crime writers of the 20th century. She weaves a tale of intrigue and mystery, with twists and turns that shock and confuse even the most dedicated amateur detective. Yet she is also a master playwright, successfully taking her suspense from page to stage. Far […]