Having begun as the teasing suggestion of “For One Final Night Only” and then spiralled into a frenzy of demand following the initial show selling out in 40 seconds, the final performances of the greatest British comedy export are at last upon us. A ten day residency at London’s O2 replete with many audience members … >
Musicals based on movies are quite the norm now, with huge successes such as The Producers and Legally Blonde, but how does this Michael Caine/Steve Martin screen romp from 1988 hold up on a London stage in the 2010s? Like those two aforementioned adaptations, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: The Musical also expands and illuminates its source … >
A lonely climbing frame sits amongst a host of birches in the darkness. Characters walk through the woods in the glow of a street lamp, their boots kicking up snow as they cross the scene. It seems only a few members of the audience have noticed what’s happening on stage, before the lights have dimmed; … >
A woman buried up to her waist by a cliff-face on a sandy beach. The sand is a mound, spreading like a ginormous skirt, and grains of it trickle threateningly down from the rocks.
A Nottingham nurse becomes an amateur porn star. Hilarity ensues.
An adaptation is always going to differ from its source material. Deal with it. A play can’t be the book, and neither can a movie; what’s necessary is to capture the mood and essence of the story and transplant it to a different medium.
You’ll have heard of Avenue Q before, of course, the delinquent boozy stepchild of Sesame Street. There’s a major touring production happening later in the year, but those who can’t wait and are down south would be well directed to this latest production from the Brighton Theatre Group.
Strangers on a Train is a welcome stage adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel of the same name, published in 1950 and turned into a film shortly thereafter by one Alfred Hitchcock.
Lord and West End legend Andrew Lloyd Webber is back with a brand new musical that revisits one of the biggest scandals of the Sixties.
Enlisting the help of Oscar-winning wordsmiths Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons) and Don Black (Born Free), Stephen Ward tells the story of the Profumo Affair which rocked the Conservative government of the time.
One of the less popular of Shakespeare’s tragedies, it’s a rare treat to see a stage production of Coriolanus.
One of the main reasons it’s not in as popular as Macbeth, King Lear and Hamlet is audiences find Coriolanus impenetrable. Reflective moments are few and far between amidst scenes of blood and thunder and political intrigue. There is little in terms of soliloquies, which are hallmarks of his greatest plays.