Category Archives: Theatre
May 15, 2012 Swallows and Amazons Forever
by Jim Eaton-Terry There are many great things about having small children and living in the country, but access to theatre productions isn’t one of them. The formula for touring family shows seems to be pretty well set; take a classic text, a bare stage, half a dozen recent graduates, and some inventive staging (a [...]
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May 9, 2012 All the world’s a stage
“All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players.” From April 21st to June 9th, The Globe theatre is the stage for all the world, as 37 international theatre companies are coming to London to present 37 of Shakespeare’s plays in their own languages. This international celebration of the Bard is [...]
Tags: Globe to Globe, Julius Caesar, Richard III, Shakespeare, The Tempest, Troilus and Cressida
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March 20, 2012 Sweeney Todd
BY VIV WILBY I said when it came out that Tim Burton’s film of Stephen Sondheim’s musical Sweeney Todd was his best for a long time. Maybe I got carried away in the moment. A couple of years on, I’m coming round to the view that most of what impressed me was down to Sondheim [...]
Tags: imelda staunton, michael ball, musical theatre, musicals, stephen sondheim, sweeney todd, tim burton
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January 24, 2012 ‘People Do Not Sing When They Are Feeling Sensible.’
Lissy Lovett: I go to the theatre quite a bit, maybe once or twice a week on average. I’m lucky enough to see a lot of different kinds of things, Big West End musicals, straight plays in the subsidised sector, fringe productions, but I have only ever been to the opera twice. Once was to [...]
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December 14, 2011 MostlyFilm’s Best of 2011 – The Book of Mormon
by Spank the Monkey Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s animated TV series, South Park, first hit our screens in 1997, about the same time as domestic internet access was beginning to take off. It was the first TV show I can remember being widely, let’s say, distributed across the web, a factor that probably contributed [...]
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November 7, 2011 One Man, Two Guvnors
Hero Bradley on a pantomime for people who think they don’t like pantomimes. The National Theatre’s One Man, Two Guvnors begins its previews at the Adelphi Theatre tomorrow. Earlier this year when it opened at the National Theatre, there were quite a few reviews which mentioned a humus sandwich being offered to James Corden by a [...]
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July 25, 2011 Legally Scorned: Films as Musicals
By Lissy Lovett I was watching Legally Blonde a few weeks ago on TV and it seemed like it was missing something. It took a little while to work out what it was but then it hit me – there weren’t any songs. Legally Blonde: The Musical opened at the Savoy Theatre in London a [...]
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July 12, 2011 MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2011: CHOON!
BY SPANK THE MONKEY Like the song says, Manchester is wonderful: and since 2007, we’ve been able to add a fourth item to the list of reasons why. The Manchester International Festival rolls up every two years, presents a whole array of world premieres across the entire artistic spectrum, and then leaves London to spend [...]
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June 23, 2011 Betty Blue Eyes
by Viv Wilby Cameron Mackintosh must be a confident man. Exit the theatre after a performance of his latest production, Betty Blue Eyes, and you’re accosted by the front-of-house staff trying to flog you tie-in merchandise. Red t-shirts bearing that suddenly ubiquitous wartime slogan ‘Keep calm and carry on’ amended to spell out quotes from [...]
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