Well, Eurovision has come early and it’s just an elongated Spanish entry! Who on earth decided to bring this Am Dram show to London? The sets are tacky, the music is bland europop, the choreography-by-numbers is straight out of a pop video and the attempts at bi-lingual audience participation are excruciating. Are there enough Spanish [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Peter Pan – El Musical
Posted in Theatre, tagged London Theatre on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Never So Good
Posted in Theatre, tagged London Theatre on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I didn’t realise how much I missed those epic plays about Britain like the Hare ’state of the nation’ trilogy until last night. What a fascinating, enthralling and deeply satisfying experience this is. I am too young (just!) to remember any of the period covered by the play and I was struck by the parallels [...]
Billy Elliott – March 2008 & May 2005
Posted in Theatre, tagged London Theatre on March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
March 2008
When you can say, after your 5th visit in almost three years since it opened, it is as fresh, thrilling and uplifting as the first, you know it’s a classic. Still wonderful.
May 2005
How wonderful to have a musical that is SO British and SO good. Everything about it is unlike the ‘typical’ musical. It has [...]
Brief Encounter
Posted in Theatre, tagged London Theatre on March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Even by Kneehigh’s exceptional standards, this is a gem. Much of the stagecraft is simple but highly effective, with an attention to detail that has you smiling at the smallest thing (ticking clocks!). It moves seamlessly from hilarity to poignancy. The projections are used brilliantly and the songs woven in as if they always belonged [...]
Jersey Boys
Posted in Theatre, tagged London Theatre on March 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The only other so-called ‘juke box’ musicals that have worked for me are Mamma Mia and Our House, both fitting songs to a fictitional story. Here we have the songs woven into the true story of the band and the book really is good and the songs seem much better than I remember thinking they [...]
Happy Now?
Posted in Theatre, tagged London Theatre on March 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At first I thought this was just another comedy – albeit a good one; but it turns out to have much more depth, and I found myself thinking about it for some time after. Both entertaining and thought-provoking.
