Shirley Valentine | Theatre Royal Brighton until Saturday 22 July Shirley Valentine Review Pauline Collins won an Oscar for her role as the title role in the film adaptation of Willy Russell’s play Shirley Valentine. The now well known Jodie Prenger (winner of BBC’s I’ll do anything, Nancy) deserves a similar accolade. Playing a […]
BULLFROG departed from its traditional end-of-year concert productions at Chequer Mead on Saturday 8 July with a brand new show crafted by musical director Adam Hoskins. The tale cleverly blended old and new as a group of five orphans fought to save four fairy tale kingdoms – Alice’s Wonderland, Snow White’s Enchanted Wood, Peter Pan’s […]
“On a hot summer’s night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?” Bat out of Hell | London Coliseum | Review Well no I wouldn’t, but I would spend an evening in the beautiful London Coliseum to see the spectacular Bat out of Hell musical, on what was the […]
Theatre Royal Brighton until 3 June 2017. Wonderland | Tour | Review The world of Lewis Carroll is famously bizarre, his imagination has thrilled readers for generations. He wrote of fairies, imaginary worlds and talking creatures, but by far his most evocative stories have to be The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland and Alice […]
Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne until Saturday 20th May Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana is adapted for the stage by Clive Francis into a well acted farcical story with dry satirical and chuckle to yourself humour. Set in Cuba in 1958, Jim Wormold, Charles Davies, an unsuccessful vacuum cleaner salesman becomes ridiculously coerced into […]
Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne until 13 May and then continues on tour. The Play That Goes Wrong | Review The Play that goes Wrong opened at The Duchess Theatre in London in 2014 to rapturous five-star reviews, multiple awards for best new comedy including the coveted Olivier and audience acclaim. Since then it has […]
★★★★ Intelligent, Witty and Fracking Fantastic Fracked | Theatre Royal Brighton | Tuesday 2nd May 2017 Fracked is a delicious combination of British comedy and political satire with a ruthlessly accurate reflection on modern society. Set in the near future, retired academic Elizabeth Blackwood (Anne Reid) and her husband Jack (James Bolam) discover that […]
★★★★★ You’ll never want to leave Wonderland ★★★★★ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Review BUY TICKETS You begin your journey in the Wonderland Bar. The performance has not yet begun, yet you have already become immersed within your surroundings. Painted trees overarch the large room filled with decorations from top to bottom, a “drink […]
Abigail’s Party | Review I was particularly excited to travel down to the Devonshire Park Theatre in Eastbourne last Monday, not just because I look forward to being entertained in new theatre venues, but because I knew that this was the 40th anniversary production of Abigail’s Party. Produced by Theatre Royal Bath Productions and […]
An American in Paris | Review Set in a post World War II Paris, An American in Paris tells the tale of US veteran Jerry (Robert Fairchild) who, after falling under the spell of a mysterious girl he sees on the streets, tears up his ticket home to try to make it as a […]
