The Price by Arthur Miller – London West End Arthur Miller’s 1968 play The Price is the story of two estranged brothers and how their underlying conflicts play out as they try to sell off their late father’s chattels 16 years after his death. Miller mines his own experience as the son of a businessman who lost […]
Germán Cornejo, Tango Fire at The Peacock – Review
Tango Fire – The Peacock Theatre Over the years I have been to a couple of tango classes. I love the music, the seductive wheeze of the bandoneon (the Argentinian accordion), and the heightened state of emotional intensity that the experience induces. Dancing tango is particularly difficult compared with other dance styles such as jive […]
Roulston & Young: Je Regrette! – Watermans Arts Centre, Brentford
Watermans’ Friday Night Live – Cabaret Time! Brentford in West London may seem a bit off the beaten track for some, but the Watermans Art Centre is ideally situated – just a stone’s throw from Kew Gardens, right on the banks of River Thames, with a wonderful view into the bargain. Parking is easy, or […]
Frantic Assembly – The Unreturning review
The Unreturning at Theatre Royal Stratford East Frantic Assembly’s production of Anna Jordan’s fearless play lives up to its name in The Unreturning. What’s it like to dream of home, a return to familiarity and domesticity…community, family, friends? To long for comforts and details vivid in memory, realer-than-real? And then how is it to arrive, […]
The Stranglers’ Back on the Tracks Tour 2019
Calling all punks…. The Stranglers take me right back to my heyday and they still hold a special in my heart, especially as at the time of their success I was living near their home town Guildford where I also saw them perform live. I was a proper fan…with proper punk credentials. During the late […]
Pinter 5 at the Harold Pinter Theatre
Pinter Wonderland… Pinter at the Pinter is a unique theatrical event, presenting together – for the first time ever – all his 20 one-act plays. Harold Pinter is vintage; an evergreen, 20th Century classic. Born in Hackney, London, in 1930, he lived with Antonia Fraser from 1975 until his death on Christmas Eve 2008. He […]
The Nutcracker at the Royal Albert Hall
Birmingham Royal Ballet Brings a Christmas Fairytale to Life: The Nutcracker has been with me almost all my life. Before I’d ever seen a ballet, I was given two picture books by my aunt. Coppelia and The Nutcracker were wrapped and put under the tree for an excited five-year-old girl to open on Christmas Day. […]
In the Round – The Roundhouse Presents…
January 2019 Preview – In the Round: January kicks off with In the Round at Camden’s Roundhouse. The Roundhouse is already a favourite of the team for its relatively intimate size and unique shape leading to great views of the stage. In the Round is an annual series of intimate performances where the venue is […]
Caroline, or Change at London’s Playhouse Theatre
Caroline, or Change comes to London’s West End… Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori’s 2003 musical has been on my must-see list for some time. Michael Longhurst’s production started life at Hampstead Theatre, moving to Chichester and now making a very welcome transfer to the Playhouse in London’s West End. This wonderfully original and quirky production takes […]
Circus 1903 at the Royal Festival Hall
The Golden Age of Circus: Contemporary Circus is all the rage lately; Barnum & Bailey’s film ‘The Greatest Showman’ is an international hit, and the rise once again of circus arts is very apparent. Over the past few years, I have found myself thrilling to a whole new the world of entertainment – one which […]