Absent Friends Devonshire Park Theatre June 2023 Eastbourne Theatres have followed last week’s production of Abigail’s Party with another suburban situation comedy of manners written just 3 years earlier in 1974. Scheduling the two plays one after another makes comparison Read More …
Assassins Chichester Festival Theatre Opened June 9th 2023 Thirteen people have attempted to assassinate the president or president elect of the United States, four have succeeded. What would happen if you placed all these people in a room, would they Read More …
2:22 A Ghost Story Apollo Theatre May 2023 Tickets Here Do you believe in Ghosts? A centuries old question. Logically and scientifically, of course ghosts don’t exist but most of us have experiences that we can’t explain; are these experiences Read More …
Teechers – Leavers ’22 The Hawth, Crawley May 2023 The Blackeyed Theatre Company I was first introduced to two of John Godber’s plays ‘Bouncers’ and ‘Teechers’ during the early ‘90s at a repertory theatre in the Midlands. Both plays were Read More …
The Vortex Chichester Festival Theatre May 2023 Opening Chichester Festival Theatre’s 2023 summer festival is a fairly neglected early work from Noel Coward. It is now 50 years since his death, and The Vortex was the playwright’s first major success, Read More …
Sherlock Holmes and the Valley of Fear Assembly Hall Theatre, Tunbridge Wells April 2023 Five years on from its production of Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four, the Blackeyed Theatre Company returns with a stage version of the final Sherlock Holmes Read More …
The Unfriend Criterion Theatre While on holiday Peter and Debbie befriend Elsa: a lusty, Trump-loving widow from Denver, USA. She’s less than woke but kind of wonderful. They agree to stay in touch – because no one ever really does, do Read More …
The Great British Bake Off Musical Noel Coward Theatre It was easy to have preconceptions about this musical. Even those who aren’t fans of the TV show know the familiar format. Several bakers of varying ages, ethnicity and background enter Read More …
Girl from the North Country Chichester Festival Theatre 24th – 28th January 2023 As Artistic Director Daniel Evans’ tenure draws to a close to take up his new position of co Artistic Director of the RSC, the Board have recently Read More …
Moulin Rouge Piccadilly Theatre Tues 17th January 2023 My first West End outing for a while due to the unpredictability of transport (which is worthy of a blog post in its own right). I arrived to see Moulin Rouge on Read More …