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Beautiful/Carole King musical

I’m not the biggest fan of the rock musical finding it formulaic and more of a tribute concert than genuine musical. Thus when Daffers suggested I join her  party for her South African visitor I was not 100% sure. In fact, I enjoyed it immensely, a moving tribute in words and music to one of [...]

June 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Travels with My Aunt/ Chichester Festival Theatre

Once again but sadly for the last time as he is leaving the post, artistic director of the Chichester Festival Jonathan Church has come up with an enticing programme of new and old, classic and innovative, for the festival season.  I never cease to be impressed that every year in a place with an [...]

May 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sunset Boulevard

I had an interesting conversation with Neil Rosen on what constitutes a good musical. Most people would say a complete score of fine songs like My Fair Lady or Oliver or his favorite Gigi. I tend, as a theatre man, to concentrate on performance. I esteem Ron Moody as Fagin or Julie Andrews in Sound [...]

April 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Some celebrations are always worth it

With the celebrations to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare now flowering into their full majesty, I suspect there are millions of literary and theatrical philistines around the world like me who going to enjoy and benefit enormously from the surfeit of media articles, [...]

April 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Because it’s there (not because it pays)

Sometimes, when you’re casting around for something to blog about, you can receive a helping hand from a traditional media outlet or vehicle. Today this happened for me when I came upon a blog by Ros Barber that appears today upon the website of The Guardian, giving her opinion on the experience [...]

March 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

Look Back in Wonder

Yesterday on the BBC 4 Arts Programme Front Row I heard a clip of Look Back in Anger of Jimmy Porter fulminating against his upper class wife. The play will be running at the same theatre in Derby where its writer John Osborne once acted. It seemed very dated. This is ironic as critic Kenneth Tynan [...]

March 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Alice in Pantoland/ Dome Studio Brighton

Alice in Wonderland is the production of Brighton’s Alternative Adult Pantomime founded by the late Brian Ralfe in 2002 who passed away in March of this year. It’s best described as gay burlesque. It’s a trip through Pantoland with most of the well known characters – [...]

January 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Man Who Fell To Earth

I had just got up yesterday, nipped across the road to buy my newspapers and returned to make a cup of tea when – switching the BBC1 morning show on the television – I first caught the news about the passing of rock star David Bowie. For the rest of the day it seemed as if the UK airwaves had [...]

January 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

Peter Pan at the Wimbledon Theatre

Yesterday I took Jamie for his annual treat to the panto. It was Peter Pan at the Wimbledon Theatre and by general consent not as good as previous years. The best thing about it was the dancing of the troupe Flawless but this had little to do with the main story. Indeed one of my critiques was the [...]

December 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

Platonov and Ivanov/ Chichester Festival Theatre

Chichester Theatre has put on this season three Chechkov plays – The Seagull and his first two, Platonov and Ivanov under the banner Birth of a Genius. This might be stretching it in the case of the latter two which I saw these past 6 days. Platonov is very much a first draft . Platonov is a [...]

November 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

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