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Continue reading →: National Theatre live:Mrs Warren’s Profession-Nova Cinema Woking.National Theatre live performances are an excellent way of getting up close to National Theatre productions through the cinema. There’s no battle with large venues, lots of stairs and every seat in the Nova Cinema in Woking allows you an unrestricted view of the screen, with more leg room too.…
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Continue reading →: The Seagull-The Royal Lyceum Edinburgh.
First performed 130 years ago, this new production, presented by the Lyceum’s new Artistic Director, offers a traditional interpretation with a strong Scottish twist, although the Russian lady in front of me with her son felt it was “far ruder.” The country setting allows the production to create a notable…
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Continue reading →: Inside No 9 Stage/Fright-Woking Theatre.Inside No 9 Stage/Fright keeps the audience on the edge of their seats especially during Act two. Prepare yourself for plenty of laughter and jump scares as you watch the popular television programme come to life live on stage in front of what was a packed auditorium. Opening the evening’s…
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Continue reading →: The Ripper Files presented by Rumpus Theatre.When I first saw The Ripper Files earlier this year I enjoyed the twists and turns that the lecture-style presentation of the cases of Jack the Ripper took, in discovering who the infamous serial killers identify was. However, watching and reviewing for a second time I found that I concentrated…
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Continue reading →: GETTING THROUGH IT-Old Vic.
GETTING THROUGH IT is a performance in two Halves. Michael Rosen uses his literary craft in the first half to talk about the death of his son at the age of 19. Who died from meningitis. Rosen isn’t angry or bitter. It’s a beautifully crafted recollection of memories from the…
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Continue reading →: Shlomo’s Beatbox Adventure For Kids-Theatre Royal Winchester.Shlomo’s Beatbox Adventure For Kids offers a lesson in how you can learn to Beatbox using only four mouth movements and combining them to make fast-paced beatbox rhythms. The history and origins of Beatbox are explained by SK Shlomo although they engage with the audience throughout to see who else…
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Continue reading →: Voice Noise – Queen Elizabeth Hall.
The 90-minute dance show, Voice Noise, showing at Southbank’s Queen Elizabeth Hall is inspired by Anne Carson’s essay The Gender of Sound. She examines the ways in which sound is gendered within Western culture and analyses how, in her view, patriarchal structures have contributed to the marginalisation of women’s voices in…
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Continue reading →: Here and Now – Woking Ambassador Theatre.
Here & Now showing at the Ambassador Theatre in Woking as part of its UK tour is the new jukebox musical featuring the hits of pop sensation Steps. The story centres around the friendship of four employees of Better Best Bargains supermarket. Caz, (Rebecca Lock) at 49, is expecting some important…
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Continue reading →: Top Hat-New Wimbledom Theatre.
The UK tour of Top Hat, currently playing at New Wimbledon Theatre in London, might be just the ticket if you’ve missed out on the ballot for Strictly Come Dancing. With old-school jazz, musical theatre pizzazz, and choreography that’ll quite literally blow your top (hat), this production bursts with joy from start…
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Continue reading →: Making a Killing by Ben Kernow.Inspired by the diary of Frantz Schmidt (1554-1634) who was the resident hangman in Nuremberg for 45 years, during that time he had executed over 394 individuals and tortured or flogged many hundreds more. The position had been handed down to him from his father. However, Schmidt wanted to be…


















