The Ten Commandments – Pulse Fringe Festival, McGintys Pub
The Ten Commandments is a clever concept, perhaps a bit more variety in the format of the sketches would benefit the show but the cast work hard to provide an hours fast paced comedy.
The Ten Commandments is a clever concept, perhaps a bit more variety in the format of the sketches would benefit the show but the cast work hard to provide an hours fast paced comedy.
The very best theatre transcends age barriers. While WhyThe Lion Danced is on paper a children’s show, it proves to be an engaging and entertaining show for all ages. Young Tom lives in the family Chinese takeaway but struggles to understand some of the customs of his ancestral homeland. As Chinese New Year approaches, the…
So the first quarter of the year has already been and gone and its 20 shows down. Some I’ve sat through some good, some average and some just darn right bad theatre in the last three months. So time to hand out both the bouquets and the brickbats, for the best and the worst, of…
Its 3am in the morning and two middle aged work colleagues have stumbled into bed together in a small, cramped New York apartment. Diner cook Johnny has fallen in love with waitress Frankie but she is more cautious, not even sure she wants to see him again. As dawn slowly breaks will their love blossom…
So should I stop going to the theatre? If I do go should I limit myself to booking a restricted view seat at the back of the theatre? Why am I asking? Well I’m 6’2 tall and from the comments I’ve started receiving from fellow audience members it seems this is far too tall to…
Okay – in this day and age of open and honest communication I need to declare an interest in this subject. Having spent many a happy year working in various box offices, it’s a subject close to my heart. This week The Society of London Theatre has just published findings showing that, since 2003, online…
Is love all we need? The Beatles would have us believe so but can love also be a destructive force? In Mike Bartlett’s epic Love, Love, Love, we get an panoramic vista at one couple’s relationship across 40 years. Here the course of true love certainly doesn’t run smooth. In 1967, 19-year-old Sandra is on…
The Ten Commandments is a clever concept, perhaps a bit more variety in the format of the sketches would benefit the show but the cast work hard to provide an hours fast paced comedy.
When first produced Alan Bennett’s Enjoy was a rare flop. It marched back into the West End last year with a record breaking advance but still received what can best be described as ‘mixed’ reviews from the National Press. Many of the critics seemed to take issue with the fact that for them this wasn’t…
The phrase Jukebox musical has become something of a derogatory term, for every hit such as Mama Mia there is a Desperately Seeking Susan or All The Fun of The Fair. The source material helps, if your songs are story lead there’s obviously a much stronger chance of them working in a dramatic format. Even…
Over the years Gallery Players have never been afraid of tackling challenging pieces but even then tackling Jonathan Larson’s rock musical Rent was an ambitious leap. Thankfully it’s a leap worth taking and turns out to be a highlight of the theatrical year. Larson’s update on La Boheme follows a year in the life of…
Some plays are forever linked to a certain performer; others remembered for an immortal line. The Importance of Being Earnest faces a double challenge, forever associated with Dame Edith Evans and her formidable delivery of the ‘A handbag?’ line. It features in the subconscious so much that it’s almost possible to hear an audience’s intake…
Ok, so I’ve long waited for a theatre to be brave enough to stage the whole August Wilson play cycle, so was thankful that the Young Vic have staged one of the ten plays. Joe Turner’s Come And Gone, the second of his decade-by-decade plays looking at black American life, is set in a 1911…
It was George Washington’s favourite play and possibly the first Broadway Musical so The Poor Soldier comes with a strong pedigree, so why is this possibly the first professional production in a couple of hundred years? Presented as part of the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds’ Restoring The Repertoire initiative to resurrect classics of Georgian…