As the team prepare to take IMAGINARY NATURAL BEINGS to the stage this August at the Camden Fringe writer Mojola Akinyemi takes time to share her thoughts and hopes about the play. I feel that plays are about authenticity. Writing a play is perhaps one of the most vulnerable things…

Erroll McGlashan’s raw comedic and heartfelt performance of Something to Take the Edge Off sweeps the audience back to the 1980s. Ezra and Terry are doing a “long stretch” in Her Majesty’s Pleasure. Why they are on I side doing time isn’t important it’s what happens while they are in…

As Mervyn Stutter embarks on another year at the Fringe. Mervyn kindly took some time out of his busy Edinburgh preparations to answer some questions and share an insight into what happens to enable the magic of “Pick of the Fringe” to take to the stage throughout the festival. Thirty…

Chesil Theatre, Winchester set the stage for queers curated by Mark Gatiss. Six separate Monologues set during six periods in a historic timeline of laws and events forced upon gay men and women, forcing many to lie about who they were to prevent persecution. Just how far has society changed…

Lavender Theatre is set on the grounds of Mayfield Lavender Garden Centre. The outdoor production boasts a large wooden-based staging with distressed wild west props taking the audience back to the depths of America during that period when men settled feuds with gun fights and women were “pretty and delicate”…

The 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival is fast approaching and I have caught up with Michael Galligan ahead of his departure to the UK ta chat about his latest production “BANANA” and the inspiration behind this rather unusual combination of a boxed banana and a clown act. Intrigued? I was and…

Wind in the Willows adapted by Michael Whitmore. Cast of three Tom Chapple, Bobby De Courcy and Robert Vend each play a host of characters. Bringing Ratty, Mole,  Mr Toad and his fellow friends to the stage. Friends Ratty (Chapple) and Mole (Veng) meet up at the start of the…

Last night, Winchester Great Hall set the scene for Henry I by Beth Flintoff. Based on the historical life before and after Henry I was crowned King of England. Rabble Theatre community-based company from Reading, Berkshire held its first performances of the play in the grounds of The Abbey which…

Blue Apple Theatre bring their latest production Animal Farm by George Orwell to the stage at Theatre Royal Winchester from 12th-14th July 2023. Bringing together a superb combination of music, acting, puppets, and audiovisuals. The scene is all set drunken farmer hounded out by the tired and overworked farm animals…

Producer and director Sasha Regan’s All-Male casting of Operetta The Mikado returns to the stage in 2023, first performed in 2017 to well-received critical acclaim. It’s full of the charm first created by Gilbert and Sullivan which saw its first staged performance in 1885. Set in the 1950’s during a…