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 […]
One Last Thing (For Now) | Review I enter the theatre space, which is a sanctuary from the virtually packed pub downstairs (it’s rugby night). I’m at the Old Red Lion Pub & Theatre in Islington. The darkened set is strewn with blank white pages. Designed by Elliot Squire, it evokes images of frantic […]
The Girls | Review When you become personally affected by a performance on stage, it becomes difficult to write a review objectively and this is certainly the case as I try to pen my thoughts about The Girls. The Girls is based on a true story about a group of women from a Women’s […]
Swifties: Theatre N16 until March 11th 2017 Directed by Luke Davies, and written by Tom Stenton, Swifties begins as the audience walks into the performance area, taking their seats. Taylor Swift’s music is blasting out with pink neon lights on the floor, making the stage look as if it were a runway. It became […]
Fame Review TOWN Mayor Bob Mainstone and his wife Christine were in the audience for Wednesday night’s storming performance of Fame at Sackville school. The stage musical, adapted from the previous film and TV series of the same name, is a toe-tapping feel-good show based around a group of aspiring young performers at New York […]
