27 April 2022 3*** The very first show one sees can have a lasting impression on the viewer. So, it is that I saw the original London West End production of JOSEPH in 1973. I was 11. It was the best thing ever. Having sung the original 30-minute cantata at school I knew the songs […]
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21 April 2022 4**** The success of David Walliams’ books for children cannot be denied and their transition to television and stage have also created new audiences for his works. First published in 2011, Gangsta Granny was adapted for TV in 2013 and then for the stage in 2017. This is a hugely enjoyable, warm
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4 April 2022 3*** Jim Cartwright’s hit play first hit the stage in 1992; written for actor Jane Horrocks, it found popularity on stage and on the big screen as a result, but it is a curates egg in so many ways. At times painful to watch and at others the story enters farcical territory.
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21 March 2022 2** Based on a film of the same name, the stage musical version of ‘WAITRESS’ has something of a higher profile than its source material . When it appeared in London’s West End the run was curtailed by the Covid pandemic. With music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles and a book by
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16 March 2022 4**** Miguel de Cervantes’ novel ‘Don Quixote’ is quite a tome; the travels and adventures of the self-appointed saviour of chivalry has had many adaptations. As a ballet it premiered in 1869 and takes a few episodes of the story to create the atmosphere and feel of the original story. This 2022
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9 March 2022 2** The English writer Mary Norton is best known for ‘The Borrowers’, but it is from some of her other books, that Disney chose to create their 1971 film ‘Bedknobs and Broomsticks’. Sibling children are evacuated to the country and through some magic they are transported on adventures in a strange land
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4 March 2022 4**** Founded in 2015 by the celebrated dancer and choreographer, Carlos Acosta, Acosta Danza was established to bring young dancers from Cuba to the fore and offer them opportunities to dance on the world stage. Dance Consortium are to be praised for bringing yet another amazing company to Plymouth and other UK
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1 March 2022 5***** Nederlands Dans Theater is regarded as one of the world’s leading contemporary dance companies and on the evidence presented by their current UK tour it is not difficult to see why. The UK is so fortunate to have an organisation such as the Dance Consortium which works with 18 regional theatres
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23 February 2022 4**** Yasmina Reza’s blistering comedy of bad manners is brought vividly to life in a new production by OnBook Theatre at the OSO Arts Centre in Barnes, London. Two couples meet up to discuss their sons who have had a fight – one of whom has broken some teeth. A quiet, considered
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22 February 2022 5***** In terms of imagination, C.S. Lewis’s was wonderful and weird and thrilling. It is no surprise that he was a good friend of the similarly creative J.R.R. Tolkein. Effective transference of their works has taken place on film and television but to see it come to life on stage is a
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