Category: Theatre & Entertainment
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The classic film Roman Holiday which made an international star of Audrey Hepburn has been newly adapted for the stage and takes to the boards as a dazzling musical with a cast of eighteen. The story is charming; Ann, a young princess, visiting Rome gives her chaperone the slip and meets Joe, an American journalist […]
This is a comedy with a twist, several in fact – back in the 80s two schoolfriends swapped important confidences, one was gay and the other, more jaw-droppingly was a committed fan of ABBA. Much water has passed under the bridge since, thirty years have passed, and a chance meeting brings them together again. They […]
Hold onto your hats – this is a rollercoaster ride through time and space courtesy of the famous story The Time Machine by H G Wells and its protagonists the award-winning Original Theatre Company. With the adaptation written by Steven Canny and John Nicholson the fun is fast and furious; there are Cher songs (would […]
One of the most enduring smash hit musicals of all time, Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story is touring again. Scooping box office success both on Broadway and in the West End (there for an amazing fourteen years) it’s entertained thousands of happy theatre goers with the poignant story of Buddy Holly who made an […]
The Comedy Cavern at Wookey Hole rides again, the wicked witch flourishing her broom stick in all the cobwebbed corners to flush out the newest, the best, and the good old favourites of stand-up comedy. In what I thought was a bit of a coup Steve Bugeja was headlining, he of ITV2’s sitcom Buffering fame […]
Looking for a unique thoughtful yet thrilling experience? Waldo’s Circus of Magic & Terror is a new musical currently showing at the Bristol Old Vic until Saturday 1 April. The show is set during the dark times of 1933 Nazi Germany. The Nazis are burning books and suspending civil rights and many are desperate to […]
A mixture of fantasy, magic and fairy tale, Neil Gaiman’s book adapted by Joel Horwood, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, explores a long-forgotten childhood game of make-believe seen through the eyes of the man himself revisiting his old hometown and the farmhouse where he used to play. His then highly imaginative friend […]
Home, I’m Darling is worth seeing for the costumes alone, Jessica Ransom is the perfect model for the 1950s dresses, fresh pastels and prints with frilly petticoats peeping out beneath, swirly skirts, and neat aprons, all reminded me of my own mother making pastry at the kitchen table when I came home from school. Laura […]
What’s not to like about a jolly Ealing comedy classic revival, especially when the talented Miles Jupp is involved? The film was first released in 1951 with a cast of comedy greats headed by Stanley Holloway and Sid James, with Alec Guinness to add a touch of class as the bank clerk, Henry Holland, whose […]
This adaptation of Olga Tokarczuk’s bleak and chilling story brings to the stage a savage presentation of the facts as Janina Duszejko, the narrator of the story sees them. She is an old woman living in a tiny remote village in Poland, obsessed with animal welfare and hating the hunters that kill in the forest, […]