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Shrek the musical
Shrek The Musical is a toe tapping, foot-stomping whirlwind of a show. Shrek (Antony Lawrence), by Ogre custom is sent to find his own way at 7 years old. Shunned by everyone for his terrifying size and ugliness he decides to live in solitude away from people in a swamp until a host of fairy… →
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Life of Pi
LIFE OF PI, a captivating theatrical experience based on Yann Martel’s Man Booker Prize-winning bestseller of the same name, is the story of a young man, Pi (Divesh Subaskaran), navigating his way through life’s challenges. Growing up as a Hindu in his father’s Zoo, Pi develops an affinity towards the animals. When the zoo acquires a… →
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The Mousetrap: 70th Anniversary Tour
Now celebrating being in constant production for 70 years, you have to be curious as to what all the fuss is about, and how it’s endured. It’s not as if you can’t miss a bit of Agatha Christie even if you wanted to, as there is always a Miss Marple, Poirot, or some new remake… →
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Home, I’m Darling
Like the title itself, ‘Home, I’m Darling’, this clever, refreshing play upturns ideals and perceptions from the very start. There is no curtain; the audience arrives in the auditorium and is presented with an idealistic nineteen-fifties home set – with florid wallpaper, a home cocktail bar, ‘vintage’ furniture and fittings and a classic pristine kitchen,… →
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Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty
Even before Disney cast his magical spell on all things fairy, Tchaikovsky brought the tale of Sleeping Beauty to life in his 1890 ballet set in a supernatural world of fairies, princesses and princes. It is fait accompli then, that Matthew Bourne has revived this ballet, completing the Tchaikovsky trilogy, after his much-loved interpretations of… →
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Cinderella
My first memories of the panto, half a decade ago, were of being coached off with a load of very excited kids on a works do at Christmastime – a perk of my dad’s job – and screaming ‘oh no it isn’t!’ and ‘behind you!’ to the cues of the evil stepmother. It is an… →
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Bat Out of Hell
Bat Out of Hell was the 1977 debut album by American rock singer Meat Loaf and composer Jim Steinman and has become one of the best-selling albums in history. It was followed up by two other albums to become the Bat Out of Hell trilogy, but it is the original Bat out of HelI that… →
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A Murder is Announced
By Amanda Briggs There’s nothing more pleasant than settling down to enjoy a nice English murder. For decades we have enjoyed the continuity of long-running TV series such as Morse, Midsomer Murders, and Father Brown, etc, etc, which indulge our apparent insatiable desire to resolve gruesome or seemingly inexplicable murders amidst rose-covered cottages, quaint old… →
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Singin’ In The Rain
You can’t say it without singing it, right? Even for folks like me who have never seen the original 1952 film starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds, Singin’ in the Rain has that same effect and has become the anthem to happiness in times of adversity, or simple recognition of the frequent frontal weather patterns… →
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The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
CS Lewis once wrote: “A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.” Having recently watched and thoroughly enjoyed the stage adaptation of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe at Woking’s New Victoria Theatre, one can see how timeless the story is. The tale… →
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