Category: Theatre
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Theatre Review – Six Chick Flicks
One of the things that I love about going to the theatre is that you are never sure what you are going to see. There tends not to be any trailers like when you go and see a film so all you know is what it says on the flyers. Even with Shakespeare, there are…
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Theatre Review – The Syndicate
Sometimes you just do things on the spur of the moment. One of the great joys of both myself and my wife being retired is that we can do things at the drop of a hat. Want to stay in your pyjamas all day? Go for it! Can’t be bothered cooking? Let’s pop out for…
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Theatre Review – Ed Byrne: Tragedy Plus Time
Imagine for a minute that you are in an awful situation. How awful? How about switching off the life support for your younger brother. This would be the brother who, a little over a year earlier, you had had a stupid argument with and not spoken to for half of that year. The argument was,…
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Theatre Review – Murder In The Dark
I feel that I need to make a public apology to Susie Blake. I fell in love with her when she was the waspish, right wing continuity announcer on Victoria Wood: As Seen On TV. She was delightfully acidic, spoke with a cut glass, RP accent, and was hilariously funny. If you take a look…
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Theatre Review – Prima Facie
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This is, quite simply, a bit different. It is a single-handed play. A one-woman performance on the stage at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London’s West End. During the run a performance was filmed and shown live in cinemas. It was also recorded and re-shown in cinemas up and down the country, I think I…
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Theatre Review – The Verdict…s?
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I don’t think it is any secret that I like a good courtroom drama; this is, in no small part, thanks to my mother who was always watching things like Crown Court, Rumpole Of The Bailey, and The Main Chance. In my list of favourite films there are four that feature dramatic courtroom scenes; Bridge…
