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Continue reading →: OUR WAR by Andrew Ashaye.
Ola (Lola Oteh-Cole) and Christian (Ola Teniola) are cousins and grew up together in Nigeria. Their lives changed during World War II change. Ola moves to the UK and Christian fights in Burma. The cousin’s correspondence forms the narrative of OUR WAR and we learn about the horrors faced by…
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Continue reading →: PLAY ON!
Play On! Is billed as a musical riff set to the Shakespeare’s Twelth Night storyline and set in 1940s Harlem. Where the Jazz scene is thriving. Apparently the only people that know how to write top Jazz music are the men. Can Viola (Tsemaye Bob-Egbe) who appears on the scene…
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Continue reading →: KIDULTS! The Musical by Mark Tunstall.
KIDULTS! The Musical is designed to take the audience on a journey back to their school days. Each of the characters represents a cross-section of people who we would recognise and could have gone to school with. From the “smelly child” to the school bullies along with their unfortunate victims.…
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Continue reading →: Autumn directed by Charlotte Vickers.Based on the novel by Ali Smith, Autumn has been adapted for stage by Harry McDonald. The synopsis describes a play about the state of the nation during and after the Brexit vote. Although I don’t recall hearing the word Brexit used on stage. Elisabeth (Rebecca Banatvala) befriends their elderly…
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Continue reading →: TATTOOER by Takuya Kaneshima.Inspired by the short story written by Junichiro Tanizaki. Seikichi (Leo Ashizawa) is a young tattoo artist whose desire is to “carve his soul onto the body of a beautiful woman”. After much search, he eventually finds two beautiful women Kazuyo A (Mao Aono) and Kazuyo B (Aki Nakagawa) who…
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Continue reading →: The Elephant in the Room by Peter Hamilton.
Life inside a nursing “rest” home can sound appealing when everything has become too much. The restful ambiance and impeccable care that the residents inside the home receive who wouldn’t want to stay there! With a title like The Elephant in the Room it suggests that under the surface things…
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Continue reading →: Q The Music James Bond Concert Spectacular.
O2 Indigo Hall hosted the established Q The Music James Bond Concert Spectacular. In 2004 Q The Music began and became the only tribute Orchestra to perform and celebrate the music from many of the James Bond films. David Zaritsky played host for the evenings event. Comparing the audio through the three…
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Continue reading →: Gay Pride No Prejudice by David Kerby-Kendall.The original novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin features the popular character Mr Darcy whose popularity soared after the television adaptation played by Colin Firth. I’ve personally never watched it so I can’t comment further. Michael Gillette in the role of Mr Darcy starts the play as he opens…
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Continue reading →: The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan.Sasha Regan brings to the stage another all-male cast production. The latest one is a Gilbert and Sullivan classic comic opera The Pirates of Penzance. Which was first staged in 1879 in New York City and then in London in 1880. Proving that these works by the famous duo have stood…
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Continue reading →: Bellringers by Daisy Hall.Clement (Luke Rollason) and Aspinall (Paul Adeyefa) escape the raging storm inside the church belfry. Can they save the world by joining forces with the neighbouring villages to ring out the storm with the church bells? Or does God have another plan for them? Although it’s never fully explained. At…
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