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.
Paris, the city of love. Scenes of countless romantic encounters, dreams, and even the odd broken heart. The city also represents a spirit of hope, never more in evidence during the darkest hours of the Second World War. Its 1945 and Christianne, a young Parisian girl is waiting at the Gare du Nord trying to…
One of the joys of any arts festival is the multitude of events happening on any one day and those spur of the moment decisions that result in you seeing an unplanned show. On the first day of the Pulse Fringe Festival, theatre company Inspector Sands shared the first showing of their latest creation, A…
King Lear is giving Hamlet a run for its money as play of the moment right now. We’ve have a rush of Danish princes and now it’s the turn of mad Monarchs as a raft of Lears take to the stage. Much like the Hamlet productions it is unfair to compare wildly different interpretations, how…
Why is it that I now seem to remember a production or venue more for the fellow audience members than for any artistic endeavours onstage? Now audience etiquette does evolve and bad behaviour is by no means limited to theatres – just don’t get me started on cinema audiences but I do wonder why some…
Sitting in the lofty height of the back of the Olivier Circle for London Assurance a Sondheim song kept running though my head. ‘A weekend in the country’ could have easily been written about this period romp. In its first major revival for many a year, Nick Hytner has called on some of the National…
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 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.
It has been something of a year for long overdue UK premiers of work by classic American authors. The National has had a huge hit with Tennessee Williams’ Spring Storm and now we get a rare premiere of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Their version of State Fair was written for the big screen and…
There are some shows you just have to shrug your shoulders on and just admit they are not for you. Sadly for me The New Wolsey Young Companies latest offering Woyzeck falls into that catergory. While you have to admire the enthusiasm and courage to try something different, the sum of the parts just didn’t…
2011 is going to be a year packed with terrence Rattigan. In the centenary of his birth, theatres up and down the country will be presenting his work in celebration. The first major London revival of the year is also Trevor Nunn’s first offering as part of his residency at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Set…
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is arguably Shakespeare’s most adaptable play. Dream’s magical and mythical elements lend themselves to imaginative staging and, in the hands of one of the country’s most imaginative theatre companies, Headlong, the pairing seems ideal. Director Natalie Abrahami has chosen to set the action against an early 1950s Hollywood film set where…
These days we’re used to the image of National Lottery winners collecting a huge cheque but, in the 1960s, attention was focused on the Saturday football results rather than lottery numbers. The chance of matching eight score draws kept many hopes alive. When impoverished Yorkshire couple Keeith and Viv Nicholson win £152,319 on the Pools…
A good measure of the success of any Shakespeare production is a glance around the auditorium to watch the faces of any children in the audience. This A Midsummer Night’s Dream had the rapt attention from all ages from small children to more senior members of the audience. Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre touring version of The…