Musicals can sometimes take themselves too seriously. While that was never likely to be a risk with a production based on an Alan Bennett text, the levels of whimsy in Betty Blue Eyes need to be seen to be believed.
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If the Spiegeltent hadn’t been standing for a week you might have worried for its structural integrity, such was the thumping, stamping raucous reception afforded to Molotov Jukebox.
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The aftermath of the sixties provides the background for the Maddermarket’s latest deeply comic production.
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I have a new infatuation, and her name is Camille O’Sullivan.
Explore MoreCirca has fast become a favourite at the Norfolk and Norwich
Festival, but this year’s show is a different beast to those that have
gone before.
Time was when all authors had to do was to turn up and read from
their works — now they must fight for survival.
What kind of decisions lead to you drinking rum and eating crisps on stage with strangers?
Explore MoreLaughter is an appropriate reaction: that’s probably about as
close as a summary to Rachel Mars’s latest show as you’re likely to
get.
Space journeys, even fictional ones, are fraught with risk. Curious Directive’s new production Pioneer, which chronicles the first manned missions to Mars, is an ambitious and challenging piece.
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Could you look your teenage self in the eye and say you stayed true to yourself?
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It’s strange the things we can get nostalgic about: for Ross Sutherland, it’s the humble videotape.
Explore MoreA shock of blood red curtain, a stark shaft of light and the
nervous ringing of a telephone: these are the key motifs of this sharp and
stylish production of Dial M for Murder.
They can be one of the irritants of summer: bees buzzing around you, clambering over your picnic, harmless and yet simultaneously threatening.
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Trends come and go, but Ewan Wardrop’s magical one-man George Formby biopic show is proof that talent – not topic – is the key to entertainment.
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The career trajectories of most comics goes from years of playing depressingly small venues, to decent theatres and finally telly. For Matt Richardson, things have been a little different.
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