Snow White and the Seven Dwarves | Chequer Mead | Review

LAST night’s performance of Snow White at Chequer Mead was a real one-off, coming as it did after a blazing performance of “cinders” at the Wallis Centre next door which had been gutted by fire two hours earlier. But if Read More …

Blood Brothers | Rising Stars Adult Theatre Company| Review

DESPITE being a theatre reviewer for the past three decades I have never managed to see Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers, an omission I was delighted to make good at Chequer Mead on Wednesday. And I was not disappointed. The Rising Read More …

Hollywood and Beyond | Bullfrog Productions | Review

BULLFROG Productions promised a trip to Hollywood and Beyond at Chequer Mead last night and with the theatre sold out, they delivered a fantastic show to a very appreciative audience. The cast was drawn from Bullfrog’s students in East Grinstead and Sevenoaks who Read More …

Hairspray | Sackville School | Review

HAIRSPRAY, the Broadway musical by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman is a foot-stomping exploration of what is possible if you only try hard enough and refuse to allow anyone to trample on your dreams. Last night Sackville students – who Read More …

Bugsy Malone | Bullfrog Productions | Review

WITH a host of toe-tapping showstoppers, a cast of impossibly cute young performers, and an hilarious script which provides some real laugh-out loud moments, it would be hard not to love Bugsy Malone. And last Saturday’s production by Bullfrog at Chequer Read More …

Aladdin | Chequer Mead East Grinstead | Review

ALADDIN, this year’s panto from the Company of Friends, bursts on to the Chequer Mead stage with some deep and mysterious enchantment. Instead of the band of happy villagers who often kick off panto fun, a blue genie levitates gently Read More …